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Date: 1998-11-20
Etappensieg gegen US-Zensurgesetz-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- updating 98.10.17/1 Etappensieg gegen US-Zensurgesetz Dasselbe Gericht in Philadelphia, das schon im Jahre 1996 das Vorläufergesetz Communications Decency Amendment (CDA) verworfen hatte, hat nun den Nachfolge- Schamhaarparagraphen COPA (Child Online Protection Act) vorerst einmal für zehn Tage ausser Kraft gesetzt. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- PHILADELPHIA - In the first constitutional test of a new Internet censorship law, a federal judge today issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) against enforcement of the Child Online Protection Act (COPA). The ruling came in a legal challenge to the statute filed by EPIC, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation on behalf of a broad coalition of Web publishers and users. COPA, enacted in the final days of the 105th Congress as part of the Omnibus Appropriations Act, imposes criminal penalties against any "commercial" website that makes material that is "harmful to minors" available to anyone under 17 years of age. Unless enjoined, the statute would have gone into effect at 12:01 a.m. on November 20. At the end of an all-day court hearing, U.S. District Judge Lowell A. Reed, Jr. enjoined Attorney General Janet Reno and the Justice Department from "enforcing or prosecuting" any conduct under COPA for at least ten days, until the issues in the lawsuit can be further litigated. Over the objections of the government, Judge Reed extended the coverage of the TRO to anyone posting material on the World Wide Web, not just the named plaintiffs. The TRO also precludes retroactive enforcement of COPA, should the law eventually be upheld, for material posted while the restraining order is in effect. ... The court ruling is the latest setback for Internet censorship proponents. In June 1996, the same federal court in Philadelphia struck down the Communications Decency Act (CDA), a decision unanimously upheld last year by the U.S. Supreme Court. In enacting COPA, Congressional supporters claimed that the new law corrected the constitutional defects of the CDA. Several federal courts have also found state laws seeking to regulate online content unconstitutional. Full text http://www.aclu.org/court/acluvrenoII_order.html In Depth http://www.epic.org/free_speech/copa/tro_brief.html relayed by banisar@epic.org -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 1998-11-20 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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