News release - Supreme Court
announces it will hear the appeal of ACLU v. Reno (the Philadelphia
anti-CDA constitutional challenge). While this does not indicate any
predisposition of the Court to rule one way or the other, it is a good
sign. Many cases challenging indecency regulation in broadcasting have
met with the Supreme Court declining to hear the cases.
Three-judge panel's ruling agreeing with the American
Reporter's arguments in general (they didn't hold the CDA was void for
vagueness) and granting a preliminary injunction against the CDA.
Bruce Taylor/American Family Assoc./Enough
is Enough's amicus curiae brief. Taylor inanely tries to convince the
court that hacking "finger" (an old Unix net tool supported by few sites
any longer) to transmit age information on each user will allow everyone
to comply with the CDA. Taylor admits to only having known that finger
existed for a few weeks, elsewhere, yet writes as if an expert on the
subject. What Taylor apparently does not know is that finger is disabled,
for good reason, on most systems, and more importantly that following his
idea would allow the pedophiles Taylor is so up in arms about to have the
pefect means to figure out who among the online service users are
children, and "stalk" them on the net - precisely the opposite result
that AFA and EiE could possibly want. If this is the best Taylor can do,
those concerned about the CDA's net censorship shouldn't have much to
worry about this time around.
_American_Reporter_ comment on the issuance
of the TRO in the ACLU/EFF/et al. v. DoJ case. Somewhat caustic, as
AR does not appear to be protected by the TRO. AR has filed a separate
lawsuit challenging the CDA.
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