The ACLU and the Child Online Protection Act
The Child Online Protection Act (COPA) was canonic by Congress on August 16, 1998. It is the purpose of this search to demonstrate how the ACLU destroyed this family-oriented act.
Immediately after COPA was signed by the President, the American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of groups representing publishers, Internet help Providers, journalists, and the technology industry challenged the legality in the United States zone Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Federal District Court test Lowell A. Reed, Jr. issued a temporary restraining order blocking the government activity from enforcing COPA. On January 11, 1999 both sides filed briefs to argue the constitutionality of the law.(ACLU)
Congresss intention in enacting COPA was to protect minor children from entrance money to free erotic tantalization pictures available at commercial pornography sites on the universe Wide Web. In order to accomplish this governmental interest, the law specifically requires commercial pornography sellers to take a trust card or adult PIN or access number in order to insure that visiting children or teenagers will not be able to see graphical sex pictures on the front pages of commercial pornography WWW. sites. COPA provides penalization of up to six months in jail and a $50,000 okay for each violation.
Plaintiffs alleged in their brief that COPA violates the First Amendment because: (1) It creates an good ban on constitutionally protected speech by and to adults, and is not the least restrictive means of accomplishing any governmental purpose, and therefore is substantially overbroad; (2) It interferes with the rights of minors to access and view real that is not harmful to them by prohibiting the dissemination of any cloth with sexual content that is harmful to minors of any age, contempt the fact that the material will not be...
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