Judge Voids State Law Blocking Child Porn
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From Times Wire Reports
A federal judge in Philadelphia threw out a state law requiring Internet service providers to block Web sites containing child pornography, saying the tools to do so also caused “massive suppression” of constitutionally protected material.
The 2002 law was aimed at forcing companies like America Online to block customers from viewing Web sites with sexually explicit images of children. U.S. District Judge Jan E. DuBois in Philadelphia ruled that the law could not be enforced without also blocking protected material.
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