Mukasey v. ACLU

The title of this entry says it all, doesn't it?

But it's the name of a real court case.

The case involved the Bush regime's ongoing defense of the misnamed Child Online Protection Act. COPA was a law that censored online content by forcing some websites to make folks provide a credit card number.

Contrary to press reports, the law was enforced. And I lost access to material that wasn't even pornographic because of it - even though I was an adult at the time.

I (a grown man) couldn't access historic maps, because I didn't have a credit card yet (even though the maps were free). All because of COPA.

But now COPA is gone, finished, dead. This time for good.

Even the current Supreme Court wouldn't uphold it. After Mucus Man appealed lower court rulings again and again, the Supremes have now let COPA wink out without a whimper.

What's astounding though is that Congress passed this unconstitutional law when they could have been worrying about important things like the economy. They were more interested in appeasing the self-anointed smut cops than in making sure Americans had enough money to feed their kids on.

(Source: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3700016)