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Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Tue Mar 22 13:00:10 2005
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 07:54:57 -1000 (HST)
From: Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Paul G <paul@rusko.us>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200503221631.j2MGVZls017472@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:=
: On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 06:18:57 -1000, Scott Weeks said:
: > : "Utah's governor signed a bill on Monday that would
: > : require Internet providers to block Web sites deemed
: > : pornographic and could also target e-mail providers
: > : and search engines."
: > :
: > : http://news.com.com/Utah+governor+signs+Net-porn+bill/2100-1028_3-5629067.html?tag=nefd.top
: > :
: > Politician lip flappage for votes. It has no chance of passing.
:
: Umm... but the Governor *signed* it already? Sort of ups its chances just a tad?
: Hopefully, it has no chance of surviving a judicial review...
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Paul G wrote:
: perhaps i'm missing something, but it's passed the state legislature and
: wassigned by the governor. what else would it have to pass, then?
Ok, passing wasn't the correct term. IANAL. Here's what I saw:
"I am having a hard time seeing how this law will survive a
constitutional challenge, given the track record of state anti-Internet
porn laws--which are routinely struck down as violating the First
Amendment and the dormant Commerce Clause," Eric Goldman, a professor
at the Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, Wis., wrote in a
critique of the law.
and
A federal judge struck down a similar law in Pennsylvania last year.
That is what I meant, but it has been pointed out that this extract is not
accurate anyway. Damn journalists... :-)
scott
