Proponents of the beleaguered Child Online Protection Act suffered yet another blow Tuesday when a federal appeals court deemed the law unconstitutional once again. The 1998 law, known as "COPA," aims to keep children from viewing pornographic materials on the Internet by making it a crime for comme...
A 1998 law designed to block children from viewing pornography on the Web was overturned this week by a federal court, setting up a possible showdown between free speech advocates and the U.S government. Judge Lowell Reed of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia sided with the American Civil Liber...
A federal judge has overturned the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA, a 1998 law that was designed to keep children from viewing pornographic materials on the Internet. Although it was signed by President Bill Clinton, it never took effect. In 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a temporary injun...
A Texas judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the family of a 13-year-old girl who allegedly was assaulted by a man she met through the social networking Web site MySpace. Part of the case was dismissed with prejudice, a decision that will likely be appealed to the Fifth Circuit Court, according to...
The California Supreme Court on Monday ruled that ISPs and Internet publishers cannot be sued for posting or distributing libelous material written by others. At issue in the ACLU v. Gonzales case was the Child Online Protection Act, which would impose criminal sanctions for posting content deemed h...
The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday presented opening arguments in federal district court in its longstanding challenge to an Internet censorship law that was signed by President Clinton in 1998 but has never been enforced. At issue in the case known as "ACLU v. Gonzales" is the Child Onlin...
The showdown between Google and the Department of Justice (DoJ) over the search engine's refusal to turn over search records heads to court on Tuesday, with Google planning to argue that the right to privacy outweighs the government's need for the information. The two sides were scheduled to make ar...
One reason the Internet gained as much interest as it did in its early days was the convenience that it offered individuals interested in pornography. No longer did they have to visit adult bookstores in person; with a few keystrokes the materials were delivered directly to their personal computers....
Key the words "free porn" into a search engine on your home PC. Most likely, you will obtain a list of more than 6 million URLs, the government's top lawyer said this week. "Internet porn is persistent and unavoidable," Solicitor General Theodore Olson, the lawyer for the Bush Administration, told t...
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