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Vendaval -> "Judge strikes down Internet porn law" (3/22/2007 5:21:20 PM)
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"Judge strikes down Internet porn law"
Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:50PM EDT
By Robert Campbell
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 1998 law designed to block children from viewing pornography Web sites violates free speech rights, a U.S. federal court ruled on Thursday, in a blow to government efforts to restrict Internet smut.
The ruling sided with a challenge brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, which had argued that the provisions of the Child Online Protection Act were too restrictive and violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that protects free speech.
Judge Lowell Reed of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia wrote in his ruling that while he sympathized with the goal of restricting minors from seeing pornography, other means that were less restrictive of free speech, such as software filters, were available to block such content.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2215511120070322
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