Judge Blocks COPA

This just in from the NYT:

"A federal judge in Philadelphia struck down a 1998 law today that made it a crime for commercial Web site operators to allow children under 17 to gain access to “harmful” material.

In the ruling, the judge said that software filters installed on home computers, and other less restrictive means, were a better way to protect children than laws that limit free speech."

If my memory serves me correctly, this was the same court (different judge) that provided a favorable ruling in the ALA filtering case that eventually landed in the U.S. Supreme Court.   Could be a sign of things to come.

Read the decision here