[Libs-Or] Fwd: [MEMBER-FORUM:1166] Trial To Decide Constitutionality Of Child Online Protection Act Begins

[Diedre Conkling]

=============
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:56:43 -0500
From: "Don Wood" <dwood at ala.org>
To: <member-forum at ala.org>
Subject: [MEMBER-FORUM:1166] Trial To Decide Constitutionality Of Child Online Protection
	Act Begins

Trial To Decide Constitutionality Of Child Online Protection Act Begins
http://donwood.alablog.org/blog/_archives/2006/10/26/2449444.html 

"The American Civil Liberties Union is suing U.S. Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales to block the Child Online Protection Act (COPA). The
trial is expected to last four weeks.

Congress passed The Child Online Protection Act (COPA) to replace the
Communications Decency Act. (The Communications Decency Act was held
unconstitutional in a 9-0 decision by the Supreme Court in 1997.) COPA
prohibits the transmission of any material over the Internet deemed
'harmful to minors,' if the communication was made for a commercial
purpose."
=============

--
Diedre Conkling
     
  Lincoln County Library District
  P.O. Box 2027, Newport, OR  97365
  Phone & Fax:  541-265-3066
  http://lcld.library-blogs.net/
  Work:  diedre at beachbooks.org
  Home:  diedrec at charter.net