CDA

Ronnie Morgan rmorgan at Harding.edu
Thu Jun 26 17:50:11 EDT 1997


At 04:30 PM 6/26/97 -0500, Albert Lunde wrote:
>I'd assume this is an infringement of "freedom of speech" for the
>site's author/publisher, not the reader.

Yes, you are right, my mistake.

>This is related in the decision to the whole issue of non-profit groups 
>wanting to distribute controversial information (and thus not asking
>for credit cards as proof of age ... the loophole in the
>CDA which would protect commercial pornography vendors.)

Ahh, an issue that slipped my mind.  Then the CDA has been properly shot
down.  And the comment that was made about the court basing thier decision
on filtering programs is also an excellient comment.  Filter programs are
going to be the only way ANY form of the CDA is going to be implemented.  

The question is now, if there is a form of the CDA that passes all legal
tests, will the library have to abide by it, even if the CDA says that
anyone under the age of 18 should not have access to porn?  From the way
some of you talk, you sound as if you'd still protest it.

Ronnie



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