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The End of COPA

By Corey Rayburnyung

COPA, the Online Child Protection and Safety Act, has finally met its end. The 3rd Circuit repeatedly struck down the statute and the United States Supreme Court has finally put the 1998 Act out of its misery. From SCOTUSBlog:The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused the federal government?s request to salvage a ten-year-old law seeking to ban minors? access to sexually explicit material on the World Wide  Web.  Acting on that law for the third time, the Justices simply declined to review a Third Circuit Court decision last July striking down the Child Online Protection Act of 1998.  The Justices? action came without comment and with no noted dissents in Mukasey v. American Civil Liberties Union, et al. (08-565).The attempts to regulate the Internet to protect children have continually overreached resulting in judicial decisions findings such laws unconstitutional...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on January 23, 2009 (boomark / email).