Screen Saviors.(Brief Article)

Protecting civil liberties is an exercise in deja vu. On March 20, 2001, for the third time in five-years, the American Civil berries Union filed suit in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia seeking to enjoin a federal law aimed at protecting children from the ravages of the Internet.

First, the ACLU successfully challenged the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which prohibited "indecency" in cyberspace and was struck down by a nearly unanimous Supreme Court. Then Congress enacted the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), criminalizing the commercial ...