3 posts and columns on Communications Decency Act

Sheriff Still Thinks Craigslist Needs Some Policing

in News on October 23, 2009 at 7:25 am PT

Thomas Dart, the Illinois sheriff who took on Craigslist, has lost his legal battle with the online classifieds site. But he vows not to give up. “It wasn’t a publicity stunt,” said Dart of the suit he filed in March to shut down the “erotic services” section of Craigslist, which he said catered to prostitution.

What We Really Need Is DOPA–The DOJ Online Protection Act

in News on July 22, 2008 at 5:00 pm PT

The Department of Justice has failed a third time to resuscitate the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA, a federal law designed to protect children from the vast reams of smut upon which it believes the Internet to be built. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals struck the law down again today, ruling that it would criminalize a category of speech that, while inappropriate for minors and the DOJ, is constitutionally protected for adults.