COLUMBUS, Ohio AP – The Ohio Supreme Court has narrowly interpreted a state law aimed to protecting children from online pornography and predators, delivering a blow to free-speech advocates who wanted it thrown out as unconstitutional.
In its unanimous decision, the court said a 2004 law extending the state’s definition of “material harmful to minors” to the Internet is clearly intended to apply only to person-to-person communications – not to generally accessible Web sites and public chat rooms.
