Judge Throws Out Internet Blocking Law
An AP newswire article by Maryclaire Dale, via MSNBC, reports that:
A federal judge on Thursday threw out a 1998 law that makes it a crime for commercial Web site operators to let children access "harmful" material.More here.
In the ruling, the judge said parents can protect their children through software filters and other less restrictive means that do not limit the rights of adults to free speech.
"Perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if First Amendment protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped away in the name of their protection," wrote Senior U.S. District Judge Lowell Reed Jr., who presided over a four-week trial last fall.
posted by Fergie @ 3/22/2007 08:06:00 AM
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