Raise a glass and toast! The Copa decision is in.

From Reuters:
Judge strikes down Internet porn law

“A 1998 law designed to block children from viewing pornography Web sites violates free speech rights, a U.S. federal court ruled on Thursday, in a blow to government efforts to restrict Internet smut.

The ruling sided with a challenge brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, which had argued that the provisions of the Child Online Protection Act were too restrictive and violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that protects free speech.”

From AVN Online:
Adult Industry, Right Wing Respond to COPA Decision

“Proving correct the U.S. Supreme Court’s intuition when in 2004 it upheld a preliminary injunction against the Child Online Protection Act, a U.S. federal court judge on Thursday ruled against the 1998 law designed to block children from viewing pornography on the Web, citing it violates free speech rights.

Judge Lowell Reed Jr. of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia said parents can protect their children by employing software filters and other means that are less restrictive on the rights of others.”

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