... . They said it was nothing more than a broad suppression of speech that was aimed at adults. Not only did it violate those adult's rights but this law is awfully vague. It doesn't define any terms in its definition. After the CDA the government drafted a new bill, the COPA. The government took the complaints from the CDA and tried to fix them by ... amendment though and once again it was found to violate the 1st amendment and the 5th amendment now in 1999. It was infringing on the 5th amendment by being so vague still. A lot of sites are starting to comply with the COPA even though it wa...

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... 's definition of obscenity, would not restrict the wide range material Web in the way the Communications Decency Act had. In drawing up COPA, Congress used Miller v. California as a basis to define material harmful to minor as: Any communication, picture, image, graphic image file, article, recording, writing, or other matter of any kind that is obscene or that " (A) The average person ... , Thomas believes it does not pose a constitutional problem. "We do not express any view as to whether COPA suffers from substantial overbreadth for other reasons, whether the statute is unconstitutiona...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... 's definition of obscenity, would not restrict the wide range material Web in the way the Communications Decency Act had. In drawing up COPA, Congress used Miller v. California as a basis to define material harmful to minor as: Any communication, picture, image, graphic image file, article, recording, writing, or other matter of any kind that is obscene or that " (A) The average person ... , Thomas believes it does not pose a constitutional problem. "We do not express any view as to whether COPA suffers from substantial overbreadth for other reasons, whether the statute is unconstitutiona...

• Word Count: 2266
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate