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Supreme Court: COPA ....Bad! Porn ......Good!
by Acidus at 12:46 pm EDT, Jun 29, 2004

] A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday barred
] prosecutors from filing criminal cases under a federal
] law designed to restrict Internet pornography, concluding
] that enforcement could violate Americans' free-speech
] rights.


 
RE: Supreme Court: COPA ....Bad! Porn ......Good!
by Decius at 12:32 pm EDT, Jun 30, 2004

Acidus wrote:
] ] A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday barred
] ] prosecutors from filing criminal cases under a federal
] ] law designed to restrict Internet pornography, concluding
] ] that enforcement could violate Americans' free-speech
] ] rights.

Not exactly "porn good." Simply that requiring adults to authenticate in order to access speech intended for adults on the internet is unconstitutional.


  
RE: Supreme Court: COPA ....Bad! Porn ......Good!
by Acidus at 2:16 pm EDT, Jun 30, 2004

Decius wrote:
] Acidus wrote:
] ] ] A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday barred
] ] ] prosecutors from filing criminal cases under a federal
] ] ] law designed to restrict Internet pornography, concluding
] ] ] that enforcement could violate Americans' free-speech
] ] ] rights.
]
] Not exactly "porn good." Simply that requiring adults to
] authenticate in order to access speech intended for adults on
] the internet is unconstitutional.

True, but the mental image of a Justice saying a la the classic Metallica -vs- Napster flash comics, COPA.... BAD! PORN..... GOOD! was too much to pass up


Supreme Court: COPA ....Bad! Porn ......Good!
by Rattle at 5:21 pm EDT, Jun 29, 2004

] A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday barred
] prosecutors from filing criminal cases under a federal
] law designed to restrict Internet pornography, concluding
] that enforcement could violate Americans' free-speech
] rights.

No more COPA.

This is a good day for porn, speech, and kids under 13. Porn and speech are great, but I do concede that its a good idea to keep the kids out of it. 13 is a fine age. I only objected that sites like this had to follow the same restriction or risk liability when a kid got sent to Suicide Girls or something.

Most young kids now know how to lie on web forms and bypass windows boot-up processes, COPA never stopped them. It did nothing to stop production of child porn content. In general, it never really addressed any problem directly.

] "I don't think that pornographers have any more right to
] shove their smut into the faces of children in cyberspace
] than they do at the corner newsstand," he said. "The
] pervasiveness of pornography on the Internet is going
] to be a barrier to its development."

Porn, Porn, Porn, and Warez carved the Internet from the wilderness.. The first seriously successful businesses on the Internet were service providers and porn sites. Face it, if history were to end right now, it would be said that the Internet was a device that simulated sex. No one would know any better of it.

And to clear one thing up. No one is anti-porn, they are anti-porn popup and anti-porn spam. There is a difference.


 
RE: Supreme Court: COPA ....Bad! Porn ......Good!
by Decius at 12:30 pm EDT, Jun 30, 2004

Rattle wrote:
] No more COPA.
]
] This is a good day for porn, speech, and kids under 13.

I don't think this decision has anything to do with the "kids under 13" part of that law. This decision had to do with the section that required all porn sites to collect credit card numbers before allowing access.


 
 
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