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Old 06-04-2002, 10:24 PM  
Mr.Fiction
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I also think that a solution that relied on credit cards for age verification could be appealed on the basis of discrimination of some sort.

You can't say that rich people have more of a right to free speech than poor people. You can say that rich people have a right to purchase products, but you can't say that a poor person, or a person without credit, has no right to read or view certain material based on content.

Imagine if the government made a law that only people with valid credit cards could visit the library, it would be overturned in a heart beat by the Supreme Court.

There has to be a valid appeal on those grounds alone.
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