Justices Hear Arguments on Internet Pornography Law

JUSTICES HEAR ARGUMENTS ON INTERNET PORNOGRAPHY LAW
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Linda Greenhouse]
The Supreme Court seems likely to uphold the constitutionality of a 2003 law called the Protect Act, the latest in a line of laws aimed at regulating Internet content. At the least, the Justices seemed likely to support a version of it they would construe narrowly to allay concerns the law is so broadly written as to make it a crime to share or even describe depictions of children in explicit sexual situations, even if the depictions are inaccurate, the supposed children do not really exist and the intention is innocent. Those concerns led the federal appeals court in Atlanta to declare the Protect Act unconstitutional last year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/washington/31scotus.html?ref=todayspaper
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