2 posts and columns on COPA

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.

K-Fed: Internet Entrepreneur?

in News on March 27, 2007 at 4:08 pm PT