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COPA/CDA II blocked until 12/4/98 [/.]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Fri Nov 20 01:09:03 1998

From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
To: users@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (SSZ User Mail List)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 23:57:46 -0600 (CST)
Cc: friends@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Ravage's Friends),
        cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer),
        stugreen@realtime.net
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>

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> X-within-URL: http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19981119S0021

>    [IMAGE] TechWeb - The Technology News Site [INLINE]
>     Technology News - [INLINE] [INLINE] . [INLINE] Judge Blocks CDA II
>    (11/19/98, 8:34 p.m. ET)
>    By John Gartner, TechWeb
>    
>    A federal judge on Thursday issued a temporary restraining order
>    preventing the Justice Department from enforcing the Child Online
>    Protection Act (COPA), an anti-pornography law Congress passed in
>    October.
>    
>    Judge Lowell Reed's decision will delay enforcement of the law until
>    at least Dec. 4. The injunction came in response to a lawsuit filed by
>    free speech advocates, filed just one day after the legislation was
>    signed by President Clinton.

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