Internet censorship.Internet censorship Internet censorship is control or suppression of the publishing or accessing of information on the Internet. The legal issues are similar to offline censorship. One difference is that national borders are more permeable online: residents of a country that bans certain will again be contested in the U.S. Supreme Court. A May 24 news release by the ACLU ACLU: see American Civil Liberties Union. said it welcomes the Court's decision to review a second congressional effort to censor free speech on the Web. Under review is the so-called Child Online Protection Act Not to be confused with Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. The Child Online Protection Act[1] (COPA)[2] is a law in the United States of America, passed in 1998 with the declared purpose of protecting minors from harmful sexual material on the , which would make it a federal crime to use the Web to communicate "for commercial purposes" material considered "harmful to minors" and carry penalties of up to $150,000 for each day of violation and up to six months in prison. The law was struck down in a federal appeals court in Philadelphia last summer, upholding a lower court ruling that the 1998 law "imposes a burden on speech that is protected for adults." The ACLU claims this law is similar to one the Court voided void·ed adj. Heraldry Having the central area cut out or left vacant, leaving an outline or narrow border: a voided lozenge. unanimously in its 1997 ruling Reno v. ACLU. |
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