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Originally Posted by Michaelious
I think the rules won't be lessened, but they won't get worse.
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Are you sure? Do you remember Bill Clinton and COPA? Child Online Protection Act?
The Supreme Court on May 13, 2002, issued a decision on Congress's latest attempt to censor the Internet. The Court did not decide any of the core legal questions, but ordered a lower court to decide the case on a wider range of First Amendment issues. Meanwhile, a majority of justices appeared to have grave doubts about the law's ultimate constitutionality, and the Court left in place an injunction barring enforcement of the law. The case has to do with a law passed by Congress in 1998 called the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), a broad censorship law that severely restricts any speech on the Web that is "harmful to minors,"
and imposes steep fines and prison terms for violators.