Wired Reports The Bush administration has appealed to the Supreme Court to reinstate Child Online Protection Act.
In an appeal filed Monday, Solicitor General Theodore Olson said the filter technology alone is not enough. Children are “unprotected from the harmful effects of the enormous amount of pornography on the World Wide Web,” he told justices.
A Philadelphia-based appeals court twice has ruled that the 1998 law unconstitutionally restricts speech. The law has been on hold since it was challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of artists, book stores and others who put information on the Web.
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