April 3, 2003
Great Firewall of the Internet
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US Censorship Legislation
No Internet censorship yet found constitutional:
lCommunications Decency Act (CDA)
lChild Online Protection Act (COPA)
lChildren’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA): library portion before US Supreme Court, school portion unchallenged
lLegal focus on:
–Obscenity
–Child
Pornography
–Harmful to Minors