Internet–Pornography
Supreme Court Keeps Net Porn Law on Ice
Source: CNET
“A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday barred prosecutors from filing criminal cases under a federal law designed to restrict Internet pornography, concluding that enforcement could violate Americans’ free-speech rights…. The majority opinion…written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, suggested that a trial may show that filtering software was a more effective way of preventing children from seeing inappropriate material than relying on criminal laws that can’t reach overseas.” He did acknowledge the limitations of Internet filters. “‘Filtering software is not a perfect solution to the problem of children gaining access to harmful-to-minors materials,’ Kennedy wrote. ‘It may block some materials that are not harmful to minors and fail to catch some that are.’”
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