COPA struck down...again!

I coulda swore this law got struck down already. But the government had to waste money appealing, didn't they?

Yep, actually it did get struck down. The misnamed Child Online Protection Act was an Internet censorship law that was the progeny of the hated Communications Decency Act. The 1998 law required certain websites to use a credit card to verify even adults who accessed their site. The law had nothing to do with protecting children.

Later, this law was struck down as unconstitutional. The Bush regime appealed this ruling to the Supreme Court, which upheld the earlier injunction and referred the case back to district court. Last year, a district judge ruled COPA unconstitutional again.

But the Bush regime appealed that ruling too. And now they've lost yet again! The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the district court's decision.

Guess what? Bush's so-called Justice Department is threatening to appeal again.

You mean even more of my hard-earned tax dollars are going to go towards this shit?

(Source: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/net-censorship.html)