This is great news!
A federal judge has finally given a decision that was long overdue: the US Government’s fraudulent law claiming to “protect children” by punishing adults online is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
You may remember this law as being the “Child Online Protection Act” or COPA. In truth, it was the next version of the Communications Decency Act, which was BLANTANTLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Congress thought that redefining “indecency” to being “harmful to minors” and limiting the scope to “commercial websites” would allow the law to pass through.
Well guess what? They were WRONG! AGAIN!
The law is BLANTANTLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL. The government was WARNED repeatedly that it would be unconstitutional. Even the US Supreme Court told the government that the law could very well be ruled unconstitutional. And now the judge hearing the case has finally given his official ruling to that effect.
As one of the LEGION of plaintiffs who fought the original CDA law ten years ago, I am overjoyed that the courts still have enough sense to rule for the First Amendment. I would seriously hope that the Department of Justice will simply take their lumps and move on, but I know moralists and their Republican cronies refuse to accept reality, so therefore this phase of the battle is far from over with.
But for now… free speech (at least from
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