Dirty thoughts under attack

by Dietsch on June 26, 2002

in Intellectual freedom, privacy, etc.

In other legislative news, COPPA (the Child Obscenity and Pornography Prevention Act) has passed the House. If the Senate approves, it will be illegal to create or possess any computer-generated image that appears to depict a minor. In other words, no minor needs to have actually been harmed in the creation of this image. The Supreme Court, earlier this year, struck down a similar law, judging that it punished dirty thoughts.

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