COPA Struck Down!

by @ 11:47 am on March 22, 2007.

WASHINGTON–A federal law aimed at curbing Internet pornography violates Americans’ free speech rights and is unconstitutional, an appeals court ruled Thursday.

A Fine Day For Every American’s Freedoms!

AND

COMMON SENCE!

For the second time, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia struck down a law that would imprison commercial Web site operators who do not cordon off sexually explicit material from minors. The Child Online Protection Act (COPA) “is not narrowly tailored to proscribe commercial pornographers and their ilk, as the government contends, but instead prohibits a wide range of protected expression,” the court said.  

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