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http://www.aclu.org/Privacy/Privacy.cfm?ID=15143&c=252
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments today regarding the Child Obscenity Protection Act ("COPA"). Here is an excerpt from the article: The Child Online Protection Act imposes draconian criminal sanctions, with penalties of up to $50,000 per day and up to six months imprisonment, for material judged "harmful to minors." The speech that is criminalized under the law includes sexual advice and education, web-based chat rooms and discussion boards involving sexual topics, and websites for bookstores, art galleries and the news media. Dr. Mitch Tepper, an ACLU client who attended today’s argument, said he fears that some communities will be offended by material on his website, which provides sex information for the disabled including articles such as "Sex Toys and Where to Purchase Them," and "Hands-Free Whoopie." "While a government attorney in Washington might say my website is not ‘harmful to minors,’ a prosecutor in some other community may think differently, and as a result I could wind up in jail and bankrupt from huge fines," Dr. Tepper said. Briefs supporting the ACLU challenge were filed by a broad range of mainstream media and arts organizations, including the Association of American Publishers, American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Recording Industry Association of America and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts." |
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What are your professional views on how broad the scope is and if it will pass? From what I remember, in the other attempts COPA encompassed such an obscure notion of what was harmful that had it passed, it was going to be very touchy for anyone in the adult industry and therefore was widely panned by the legal profession. On the surface, it looks like this might still be the case?
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I personally feel if COPA would have passed original scrutiny you would have seen a stronger adult business on the net. It would have killed lots of free porn, and put porn where it belongs behind credit card sales.
It would have helped create some time of ground rules for professionalism. COPA is not an Ashcroft thing - its a Clinton thing!
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this is all enevitable. the debate and fight will continue as long as a 12 year old can walk into his library at school and look at free pics of a drunk teen fucking a donkey.
something will definately happen in the end. there will be some sort of regulation, although it most likely will be pretty weak. I agree with Mike that it is a good thing... not a bad thing and it will be good for businessmen and bad for the GFY "i do it for the beer money" crowd.
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