U.S. Court Upholds Ban On Child Online Protection Act

Boston (dbTechno) - A ban on the enforcement of the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) was upheld in a U.S. court on Tuesday.

The ban was upheld in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, as they followed and agreed with the ruling of the lower court.

The ruling is that the law is far too vague, too broad, and unconstitutional.

The law was originally passed in 1998 and was intended to protect children from certain content on the internet, such as pornography.

The idea was to force the owners of Web sites to create verifiable age checks, so kids could not access the content.

Critics to the law feared that it would lead to the censorship of the internet.

The court found that the filters to keep kids off the site were more effective than just trying to prosecute offenders.