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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Supreme Court refuses to revive Child Online
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (privacy@vortex.com)
Wed Jan 21 15:02:28 2009
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:40:12 -0800
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Greetings. The U.S. Supreme court has again refused to revive COPA -
the Child Online Protection Act.
I expect that Congress may try to go down this politically popular,
but unwise and unworkable path once again by narrowing its scope. For
now though, the Supreme Court's attitude (even though a past key
decision was a tight 5-4) is encouraging.
Such censorship attempts are not the path to protecting our children,
or anyone else for that matter.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/washington/22scotus.html
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
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Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
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Co-Founder, PFIR
- People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
Co-Founder, NNSquad
- Network Neutrality Squad - http://www.nnsquad.org
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Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
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