COPA Backers Slam Ruling, Urge Appeal
News The anti-pornography group Enough is Enough blamed COPA's latest legal defeat on the lead plaintiff in the case, the American Civil Liberties Union, saying the free-speech watchdog group "very carefully whipped up hysteria and paranoia over this...
[February 3, 1999, 9:26]
Judge Upholds COPA Injunction
News The ruling grants a bid by plaintiffs -- including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Electronic Privacy Information Centre, ZDNet and a host of online publishers -- to extend a three-month-old temporary...
[February 2, 1999, 9:10]
Is There A Future For US Child Protection Bill?
News Department of Justice against that ruling puts COPA in the hands of three judges at the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Government lawyers filed the appeal with just hours to spare; if they had not appealed by the April 2 deadline, COPA would have...
[April 6, 1999, 9:39]
Does The Net Need A 'red-light District'?
News The idea, presented Friday to a commission exploring the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), would create a "red-light district" for porn sites and a so-called "green" area for sites appropriate for children.
[August 7, 2000, 10:24]
US Court Rejects Web Porn Law
News The Child Online Protection Act (COPA) "is not narrowly tailored to proscribe commercial pornographers and their ilk, as the government contends, but instead prohibits a wide range of protected expression", the court said.
[March 7, 2003, 7:51]
Freedom Of Speech V The Will To Protect Children
News Whilst COPA supporters believe the bill is only intended to pull the Internet in line with conventional media, critics feel it will damage adults right to view sights with a sexual content. Legitimate sites like these would be prevented from...
[March 22, 1999, 10:55]
US Considers Rating Office For Sex Sites
News Thursday, at the final of several field hearings by the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) commission, panelists say they would likely include Polly's idea in a report they are preparing for Congress.
[August 4, 2000, 14:20]
US Report: CDA II Looking Strong
News The newly approved Children's Online Protection Act, or COPA, would ban any commercial Web site from carrying materials judged "harmful to minors" without first placing those materials in an area that could be accessed only by adults or minors 17...
[September 25, 1998, 10:40]
Google Stands Up To Government Porn Probe
News I think [complying with the subpoena] would substantiate the basis of COPA if they get a free exchange of information on youthful use of the Internet. The ACLU says Web sites cannot realistically comply with COPA and that the law violates the right...
[January 20, 2006, 8:40]
Net-porn Filtering Hit With Lawsuits
News They succeeded in derailing major portions of both the US' Communications Decency Act -- which would have made it a felony to deliver indecent material over the Net -- and the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) -- which would outlaw companies that...
[March 21, 2001, 8:29]
Political Paradox: Technology Is Everywhere, Except In Voters' Hearts
News But Oxley, the Ohio Republican who sponsored the controversial Child Online Protection Act (COPA) measure, must address those issues as part of a wider campaign agenda that includes crime control and consumer anti-fraud protections, she said.
[October 20, 1998, 6:03]
Web Of Porn: The Business Of Porn - Part 1
News The latter camp has for the time being succeeded in thwarting this controversial Child Online Protection Act (COPA) but the government is determined to see COPA become law. Thanks to e-mail, anonymity and search engines, "adult" Web sites are booming.
[March 9, 1999, 15:43]
UNESCO Calls For 'Cyber Mums' Against Paedophiles
News Arnaldo pointed to the failure of the COPA law as a test case. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) is calling for a worldwide network of `cyber mums' as a result of the conference -- Sexual abuse, Child...
[March 22, 1999, 10:53]
AT&T Exec: Net Is Full Of Hate
News With all due respect, the message you've espoused has misled the Congress into passing the CDA [Communications Decency Act] and COPA [Child Online Protection Act]," Berman continued. But when Leo Hindery, president and CEO of AT&T Broadband and...
[August 25, 1999, 9:30]
Google Wins Porn Probe Fight
News A divided US Supreme Court in 2004 stopped short of striking down COPA and instead decided that a full trial was needed to determine whether the law is constitutional. In a move that alleviates some privacy concerns, a federal judge granted part of...
[March 20, 2006, 7:55]
Google Porn Probe Compromise Imminent
News The ACLU is challenging the 1998 Child Online Protection Act (COPA), which makes it a crime for a commercial Web site to post material that some jurors might find "harmful" to any minor who stumbles across it.
[March 15, 2006, 12:40]
