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The Child Online Protection Act [1] (COPA) [2] was a law in the United States of America, passed in 1998 with the declared purpose of restricting access by minors to any material defined as harmful to such minors on the Internet.
Tech journalist Larry Magid, a long-time vocal opponent of the law, [54] [56] [6] also notes that parents, not the government, hold the bulk of responsibility of protecting children online. [6] COPPA has also been criticized for its potential chilling effect on children's apps, content, websites and online services.
In 1998, the United States enacted the Child Online Protection Act [26] (COPA) to restrict access by minors to any material defined as harmful to minors on the Internet. The law was found to be unconstitutional because it would hinder protected speech among adults.
COPA may refer to: Child Online Protection Act, a former U.S. law to protect minors from certain material on the internet; Canadian Owners and Pilots Association; Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association; Parliamentary Conference of the Americas; COPA (gene), a human gene that encodes the coatomer subunit alpha protein
Court injunction blocked enforcement of the first, the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), almost immediately after its passage in 1998; the law was later overturned. While legal challenges also dogged COPA's successor, the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) of 2000, the Supreme Court upheld it as constitutional in 2004.
The Child Online Protection Act (COPA), passed in 1998, was Congress's second attempt to criminalize the use of the Internet to distribute obscene material, including pornography, simulated pornography, and pornographic artwork. COPA enforced a $50,000 fine and six months in prison for the posting for "commercial purposes" of content on the ...
The proposed law would have expanded existing criminal laws to include unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content, imposing a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Proponents of the legislation said it would protect the intellectual-property market and corresponding industry, jobs and revenue, and was necessary to bolster enforcement of ...
The law also provides that the school or library "may disable the technology protection measure concerned, during use by an adult, to enable access for bona fide research or other lawful purpose". Schools and libraries that do not receive E-Rate discounts or only receive discounts for telecommunication services and not for Internet access or ...