{"id":195201,"date":"2008-07-23T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/23\/3rd-u-s-circurt-court-of-appeals-strikes-down-copa\/"},"modified":"2008-07-23T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T22:57:00","slug":"3rd-u-s-circurt-court-of-appeals-strikes-down-copa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/23\/3rd-u-s-circurt-court-of-appeals-strikes-down-copa\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd U.S. Circurt Court of Appeals Strikes Down COPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They found the law uvague and an infringement on the first amendment and so <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/AheadoftheCurve\/story?id=5428228&amp;page=1\">declared the Child Online Protection Act unconstitutional<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;It is apparent that COPA, like the Communications Decency Act before it, &#8216;effectively suppresses a large amount of speech that adults have a constitutional right to receive and to address to one another,&#8217; Reno, 521 U.S. at 874, 117 S.Ct. at 2346, and thus is overbroad. For this reason, COPA violates the First Amendment,&#8221; the judges wrote. &#8220;These burdens would chill protected speech.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I expect an appeal, but the fact is that the mechanisms are more restrictive, and less effective than filters, and as such appear to be unconstitutional, though IANAL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They found the law uvague and an infringement on the first amendment and so declared the Child Online Protection Act unconstitutional: &#8220;It is apparent that COPA, like the Communications Decency Act before it, &#8216;effectively suppresses a large amount of speech that adults have a constitutional right to receive and to address to one another,&#8217; Reno, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,997,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-internet","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}