{"id":1344,"date":"2007-03-27T09:29:48","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T16:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2007-03-27T09:29:54","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T16:29:54","slug":"anti-porn-law-struck-down-in-the-name-of-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2007\/03\/27\/anti-porn-law-struck-down-in-the-name-of-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti Porn Law Struck Down in the Name of Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2\/2007_03_27_paul.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&#038;p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2\/2007_03_27_uprising.MP3&#038;m=1\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pamelapaul.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"http:\/\/www.amazonbookstorecoop.com\/bookpix\/pornified.jpg\" alt=\"Pamela Paul's book Pornified\" \/><\/a><em>GUEST: Pamela Paul, author of &#8220;Pornified: How Pornography is Transforming our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 1998, Federal law makers drafted the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA, with the intent of protecting children from porn and other indecent material on the Web. The law would have fined commercial Web sites up to $50,000 a day and six months in prison for each day they disseminated information deemed &#8220;harmful to children.&#8221; But COPA never took effect because a court barred enforcement pending the outcome of legal challenges. Now, the law has finally been declared dead after U.S. District Court Judge Lowell Reed Jr. struck it down last week. The judge&#8217;s decision was greeted positively by a group called the Free Speech Coalition, which is actually a trade association for the pornography industry. According to Judge Reed the law is too narrow in its failure to address technologies such as peer-to-peer file sharing, community sites, and foreign sources. But Reed also thinks the law is too broad in that it targets speech protected under the U.S. Constitution. The ACLU, which was very involved in the campaign contended that the COPA law &#8220;could result in a loss of appropriate and valuable content for adults, including information about safe sex or art galleries with modern photography.&#8221; The anti-COPA ruling is a legal precedent that could make it impossible to further regulate online pornography. <\/p>\n<p>Pamela Paul&#8217;s website is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pamelapaul.com\">www.pamelapaul.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Pamela Paul, author of &#8220;Pornified: How Pornography is Transforming our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families In 1998, Federal law makers drafted the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA, with the intent of protecting children from porn and other indecent material on the Web. The law would have fined commercial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}