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Originally posted by Mr.Fiction
Blocking access to websites doesn't interfere with free speech because Internet addresses aren't real, according to the Pennsylvania attorney general's office.
"It is a little string of letters and numbers that acts as a superficial label," they argued in a brief. "Disablement of an ISP's customers' access to a particular URL for even an indefinite time does not implicate First Amendment rights."
Some legal experts worry that if the Pennsylvania law is allowed to stand it could pave the way for other states to pass similar laws, blocking access to sites that the states deem illegal or immoral.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,61840,00.html
What a bunch of fucking idiots. Books aren't real speech, either. They're just a bunch of ink on some paper - why should they be protected by the Constitution?
Sorry if this has already been posted, the GFY search is broken again.
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"""The attorney general's staff searched the Internet for child pornography and also set up a Web page that allowed Pennsylvania residents to report instances of child pornography.
The office then "sent about 500 informal notices to the ISPs through whose services the offending material had been accessed, asking the ISPs to disable their subscribers' access to the sites. The ISPs generally wrote in response that they had complied with the notice," the attorney general's office said in a brief."""
Mr. Fiction, stop defending child pornography.
As always, you're on the wrong side of the issue.