More Porn for the Supremes

The US Supreme Court heard oral argument yesterday in a case challenging the government's latest attempt to regulate Internet porn. The Child Online Protection Act was passed in 1998 after the Communications Decency Act was struck down by the court. COPA seeks to keep kiddies from accessing nasty content on the web, but in the process shuts off adults from a lot of stuff that is perfectly OK for adults to see and read and hear. Hopefully, the Court will follow its precedent from the CDA case that the government can't sanitize the Web just in the name of "protecting the children" and strike down COPA.

For the record, after nearly 10 years online I still don't buy into the "I just accidentally surfed into some porn" stories. You gotta look for it. It's not hard to find, but you pretty much have to make some affirmative effort to get it.