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Date: 1999-11-05
Zensurgesetz COPA & die Moral der Mormonen-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Bewohner von Utah oder der Amish zurückgeschraubt?" fragt sich einer der Richter, die im Revisionsverfahren das US- Jugendschutzgesetz COPA zu beurteilen haben. Das Verfahren wird jetzt gerade spannend. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- .. The new U.S. law would make it a federal crime for commercial Web site operators to expose children under 17 to material deemed harmful. Government officials have been barred from enforcing it, however, because of a preliminary injunction imposed in February by a U.S. district judge who said he believed the law might violate the constitutional right to free speech under the First Amendment. Justice Department attorneys who appealed the lower court's ruling to the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia quickly ran into trouble when a three-judge appellate panel opened an hour-long hearing to review oral arguments in the case. U.S. Circuit Judge Leonard Garth criticised the law for leaving the definition of "harmful" material to contemporary community standards. Garth commented, "It seems to me that in terms of the World Wide Web, what the statute contemplates is that we would be remitted to the most severe standards, perhaps those of Iran or Iraq," where he said that even showing a woman's face was considered objectionable. CEILING SET BY "MOST CONSERVATIVE"? "Are we all going to be remitted to the standards of the residents of Utah or the Amish community? Isn't it for the most conservative community to be the ceiling for the rest of us?" he asked. "This one particular aspect gives me great, great trouble, and I don't think it's resolved." The Child Online Protection Act, which represents the latest attempt by the Republican-controlled Congress to control Internet smut, was signed into law by President Bill Clinton a little over a year ago. But the law quickly ran into a court challenge from a coalition of Internet-based businesses led by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Privacy Information Centre and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Two years ago, a similar coalition persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the law's forerunner, the 1996 Communications Decency Act. Despite assurances that material would be exempt if it had redeeming social, artistic or political value, opponents say the law could be used by conservative groups to close down Web sites devoted to hot-button issues, including gay or reproductive rights. ... Full Story http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991105/wr/internet_porn_2.html -.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 1999-11-05 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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