Ohio Net Censorship Law Struck Down

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rfc1394 writes "C|Net reports that a federal judge has struck down as unconstitutional a portion of an Ohio statute which attempted to prevent minors from seeing material which would be 'harmful' to them, but was so overbroad that it would have covered a considerable amount of material which is legal for adults to view. Basically, if a website operator had reason to believe the material they were showing was visible to minors, and if the material was considered to be harmful to them, they would be in violation of the law. Since about 1/6 of the users of the Internet are minors, it's trivial to argue that anyone running a website would be aware that the material they have is visible to minors even if they had no intention of doing so."Read more of this story at Slashdot.




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[caanjek]

A federal judge has struck down an attempt to prevent minors see the material it would be harmful part of Ohio's regulations unconstitutional but this is too broad it covers a lot of material which is an adult the legal view.If a Web site operators have reason to believe that show them the material is visible to minors if the material is considered to be harmful to them they will be in violation of the law.

[Bernardjames]

Christians, are you aware you will be struck down by lightning for opposing Zeus?