10 years later, COPA internet censorship law is finally dead

Way back in 1998, US president Bill Clinton signed into law a measure called the Child Online Protection Act. And it’s never actually been enforced.

As the name suggested, the law was intended to help protect kids from the dangerous things that can be found on the internet, specifically pictures of naked people. But critics said it limited free speech, and didn’t make it clear how to distinguish between sexually explicit internet content and educational web sites. Today, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case, effectively killing the law.

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