Fed Court Invalidates Anti-Porn Law

A First Amendment case gets brief mention today, as covered by CNN.

A lawyer for the government, in supporting the act which established a duty on website owners to check for visitor's ages and imposed stiff fines, said:

"It is not reasonable for the government to expect all parents to shoulder the burden to cut off every possible source of adult content for their children, rather than the government's addressing the problem at its source," a government attorney, Peter D. Keisler, argued in a post-trial brief.

Without editorializing too much, I would have to strenuously disagree that government has any sort of duty in this arena, at least as far as legal material. It will be interesting to watch this develop on appeal.