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FTRF Files Amicus Brief
Against Child Online Protection Act

In anticipation later this year of a Justice Department appeal seeking enforcement of the Child Online Protection Act, a number of members of the Media Coalition, including the Freedom to Read Foundation, filed a friend-of-the-court brief August 30 arguing that the law violates the First Amendment.

Claiming that COPA “suffers the same crippling constitutional flaws” that the Supreme Court found in the Communications Decency Act when it overturned that law in 1997, the brief points out that “in the hands of the nearly one hundred United States Attorneys across the nation, this law can mean anything to anyone at any given time.”

Other groups signing onto the amicus brief include the Association of American Publishers, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Computer and Communications Industry Association, and People For the American Way Foundation.

Posted September 13, 1999.

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