COPA back before appeals court
The Child Online Protection Act (COPA) is back before an appeals court in Philadelphia. COPA would restrict commercial Web publishers from allowing minors access to sexually explicit material that has no scientific, literary, artistic or political value and that is offensive to local "community standards." This same appeals court overturned COPA in 1998 based on the problems of applying "community standards" to the borderless Internet, which would allow any one restrictive community to censor content for the whole country (and world). The government appealed to the Supreme Court, which sent the case back to the appeals court for further review.
