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[FYI] CDA II
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 08:43:37 +0100
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U.S. law seen usurping adult control
over Internet
January 26, 1999
Web posted at: 8:14 PM EST (0114 GMT)
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -- The U.S. government could
usurp parental control over what children see on the
Internet if a new law designed to restrain online
pornography goes into effect, companies opposed to
the law told a federal court Tuesday.
In closing arguments before U.S. District Judge
Lowell Reed, an attorney for 17 Internet companies
assailed the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) as a
measure that violates the constitutional right to
free speech while imposing unreasonable costs on
businesses that populate the World Wide Web.
American Civil Liberties Union attorney Ann Beeson
said the public would be better served if families
opted for commercially available filtering software
capable of stopping Web browsers on home personal
computers from visiting pornographic Web sites.
"It should be up to parents, and not the government,
to decide what children should see," she told Reed
at the end of five days of hearings.
Beeson said filtering software would not only return
authority over home PCs to parents but go farther
than COPA by blocking non-commercial and
foreign-based Web sites.
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