Excerpt from CNET Supreme Court deals death blow to antiporn law:
The U.S. Department of Justice has been trying since 1998 to convince courts that a federal antiporn law targeting sexually explicit Web sites was constitutional.
No longer. On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected prosecutors' last-ditch defense of the Child Online Protection Act, meaning that the law will not be enforced.
Excerpt from Washington Post Online-Porn Law Is Allowed to Die:
The law would have provided civil and criminal penalties for those who offer material that is "harmful to minors" on the Web if that material is "available to any minor." It was immediately challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union and others, who said it violated the First Amendment by censoring material that was appropriate for adults or by restricting material for adults to only that which was deemed suitable for viewing by children.
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