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Author:   Matt Deatherage  
Posted: 4/16/02; 2:22:11 PM
Topic: Story: SCOTUS nixes CPPA
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Story: SCOTUS nixes CPPA

The US Supreme Court today overturned a popular law that, nonetheless, had to go. It's always hardest to defend really distasteful speech on First Amendment grounds, but the "Child Pornography Protection Act" took a ban on kiddie porn intended to protect children and extended it to punish people who hadn't directly or indirectly harmed any actual children at all. My explanation got long so it's on a separate page, and you may not agree with it, but there it is.
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