A US court has thrown out a proposed law which would have imprisoned website operators who fail to cordon off explicit material so as to protect children from seeing it. An appeals court said the law is unconstitutional as it impinges on freedom of...
Last year, the US Supreme Court blocked Congress' first law banning nude images of computer-generated minors and underage teens, saying the 1996 measure violated the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of expression.
That material, according to the bill, includes any "communication", image, article, recording or other "obscene" matter, including actual or simulated sexual acts and "lewd exhibition of the genitals or post-pubescent female breast".
The legal action against Google comes as Congress and the Bush administration have been attempting to step up their crackdown on online sexual exploitation of children. Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act protects providers and...
That law, signed by President Clinton in December 2000, requires schools and libraries that receive federal funding to block access to off-colour material. Dopa would also require the Federal Trade Commission to set up a website about the...
Sharon Cooper, an adjunct professor of paediatrics at the University of North Carolina, urged politicians to require that all public-school health classes, from elementary to high school, teach "child sexual abuse prevention strategies as well as...
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