C0PA ruled unconstitutional again and my thoughts

from an article at ars technica ….

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit today upheld a ban on the enforcement of the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), ruling once again that it was unconstitutional, overbroad, and vague. The American Civil Liberties Union, which challenged COPA on behalf of a coalition of writers, artists and health educators, hailed the ruling as a victory for free speech.

“For years the government has been trying to thwart freedom of speech on the Internet, and for years the courts have been finding the attempts unconstitutional,” said Chris Hansen, senior staff attorney with the ACLU First Amendment Working Group. “The government has no more right to censor the Internet than it does books and magazines.”

COPA was originally passed by Congress and signed into law by President Clinton in 1998 and was meant to protect children from “harmful” content on the Internet. Unfortunately for proponents of the law, its wording was very broad and would have required website operators to implement a number of measures to enforce “contemporary community standards.” According to the ACLU blog, it would have even barred adults from seeing material that was not appropriate for a child and would have affected, among other things, the online availability of sexual health information”"

My Thoughts …

I’m so happy that this outmoded and unconstitutional law is continously defeated in U.S courts. It’s been ruled unconstitutional by both conservative and activist judges alike. All it does if it were enforced is to constrain free speech on the internet, where it flourishes the world over.

Should child porn exist, of course not, should the existance of child porn be at the expense of our constitutional rights? I say not. All of our rights are under attack on a daily basis, and we need to be aware of that. Many laws that has been signed into law has an unseen current of pulling our constitutional rights from underneath us. Learn more about the laws that are passed into this nation. File for information on past laws using the FIA (Freedom of Information) act. You’ll most likely get what you request since lawmakers really have forgotten that they’re our slaves not the other way around. They exist for us not in spite of us.

Too many people have forgotten this simple fact.