ACTS, ACTS, ACTS

I agree with the professor that children should never be subjected to pornography, especially on the internet.  It is extremely easy for children to innocently stumble on porn when surfing the web.  With this being stated, I agree with the supreme court for declaring the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) and the Child Decency Act (CDA) unconstitutional.  Both of these acts, that were supposed to protect children from pornography on the internet, were way too broad.  It would have been extremely hard to come up with a uniform definition of what was porn and what wasn't.

The Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA) was a very good idea.  It was a good compromise in order to shield children from porn.  Since Congress could not pass an act restricting porn on private computers, the passed an act restricting porn on all public computers.  The way they got this act declared constitutional is very interesting.  The act doesn't say public institutions are not allowed to show allow their customers porn, but that if these public institutions put a filter on their computers, which filters out porn, then the government will share some money with these institutions.  But if these public institutions decide not to put a filter on, they will get no funding from the government.  This was a good idea by Congress to get this act passed!