For the third time, a law passed by Congress to protect children from smut on the Internet is going on trial in federal court in Philadelphia. In the first two cases, the courts struck down the laws – the Communications Decency Act and the Child Online Protection Act – as unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court later agreed that the CDA was unconstitutional, and the justices are right now weighing whether COPA also should be struck down.
In many ways, the current challenge to the Children’s Internet Protection Act, or CIPA, which went on trial March 21 before a three-judge panel, is similar to the previous two cases.
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