Why would the FBI(If that is your real name) want to shut down a rpg making community?
And Child Porn ? ehh no it's called CP for short wihich is an acronym for Chaos-Project.
Arguement 2:
What act of internet violation do you guys have to actually shut down Chaos-Project?
Arguement 3:
Would it be illegal to start a new CP?(Chaos-Project)
Arguement 3:
Quote from: MetaKnight on April 01, 2009, 04:52:49 pm
Under which act is this forum to be shut down on?
What rights did Blizzard/Forumers violate?
And how do you figure that there are hidden topics/posts? think about guys, FBI could just hack the hell out of the forum and rip each individual piece of it apart.
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If i get banned for this then I gues it's worth it. I'll fight for CP and all who ... Inhabit it
Quote from: Supreme Court
The USA Government has enacted two Federal laws intended to censor offensive online content. Neither of these laws are in force as at March 2002. The first law (the CDA) was struck down by the USA Supreme Court on First Amendment grounds. The second law (the COPA), which is more narrowly focussed and covers only communications that are made for commercial purposes on the World Wide Web, is the subject of a Court injunction (also on First Amendment grounds) preventing its enforcement pending a decision of the Supreme Court. The Court decision is expected to be handed down in the latter part of 2002.
Since 1996, four U.S. states, New York, New Mexico, Michigan and Virginia have passed Internet censorship legislation restricting/banning online distribution of material deemed "harmful to minors". These laws have been struck down on Constitutional grounds.
Information about the two Federal laws is provided below.
The Communications Decency Act (CDA)
The CDA was enacted in February 1996. In the same month, a US Court issued a restraining order preventing its enforcement. In June 1996, a panel of federal judges in Philadelphia ruled the CDA unconstitutional. In June 1997, the US Supreme Court struck down the CDA on grounds that it violated the First Amendment.
The following brief information about the CDA is extracted from the USA Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit's decision (Feb 2000) on the COPA:
"The CDA prohibited Internet users from using the Internet to communicate material that, under contemporary community standards, would be deemed patently offensive to minors under the age of eighteen. In so restricting Internet users, the CDA provided two affirmative defenses to prosecution; (1) the use of a credit card or other age verification system, and (2) any good faith effort to restrict access by minors. In holding that the CDA violated the First Amendment, the Supreme Court explained that without defining key terms the statute was unconstitutionally vague. Moreover, the Court noted that the breadth of the CDA was "wholly unprecedented" in that, for example, it was "not limited to commercial speech or commercial entities . . . [but rather] ts open-ended prohibitions embrace all nonprofit entities and individuals posting indecent messages or displaying them on their own computers.
Further, the Court explained that, as applied to the Internet, a community standards criterion would effectively mean that because all Internet communication is made available to a worldwide audience, the content of the conveyed message will be judged by the standards of the community most likely to be offended by the content. Finally, with respect to the affirmative defenses authorized by the CDA, the Court concluded that such defenses would not be economically feasible for most noncommercial Web publishers, and that even with respect to commercial publishers, the technology had yet to be proven effective in shielding minors from harmful material. As a result, the Court held that the CDA was not tailored so narrowly as to achieve the government's compelling interest in protecting minors, and that it lacked the precision that the First Amendment requires when a statute regulates the content of speech."
Child Online Protection Act (COPA)
COPA is the sequel to the CDA and aimed to avoid the constitutional defects of the CDA. COPA covers communications that are made for commercial purposes on the World Wide Web. It requires commercial Web publishers to ensure that minors do not access "material harmful to minors" on their Web site.
COPA was enacted on 21 October 1998. On 20 November 1998, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued a temporary restraining order against enforcement of the law and subsequently, on 1 February 1999, issued an injunction preventing the government from enforcing the law. On 22 June 2000, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld the lower court's injunction. The Court stated in its conclusion that "Due to current technological limitations, COPA -- Congress' laudatory attempt to achieve its compelling objective of protecting minors from harmful material on the World Wide Web -- is more likely than not to be found unconstitutional as overbroad on the merits."
The decision was appealed to the US Supreme Court and that Court's decision is expected to be handed down in the latter part of 2002.
An overview of COPA's provisions is included in the Court of Appeals February 2000 decision:
'COPA ... attempts to "address[ ] the specific concerns raised by the Supreme Court" in invalidating the CDA. COPA prohibits an individual or entity from:
"knowingly and with knowledge of the character of the material, in interstate or foreign commerce by means of the World Wide Web, mak[ing] any communication for commercial purposes that is available to any minor and that includes any material that is harmful to minors."
As part of its attempt to cure the constitutional defects found in the CDA, Congress sought to define most of COPA's key terms. COPA attempts, for example, to restrict its scope to material on the Web rather than on the Internet as a whole;4 to target only those Web communications made for "commercial purposes";5 and to limit its scope to only that material deemed "harmful to minors."
Under COPA, whether material published on the Web is "harmful to minors" is governed by a three-part test, each of which must be found before liability can attach:
(A) the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find, taking the material as a whole and with respect to minors, is designed to appeal to, or is designed to pander to, the prurient interest;
(B) depicts, describes, or represents, in a manner patently offensive with respect to minors, an actual or simulated sexual act or sexual contact, an actual or simulated normal or perverted sexual act, or a lewd exhibition of the genitals or post-pubescent female breast; and
(C) taken as a whole, lacks serious, literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.
COPA also provides Web publishers subject to the statute with affirmative defenses. If a Web publisher" has restricted access by minors to material that is harmful to minors" through the use of a "credit card, debit account, adult access code, or adult personal identification number . . . a digital certificate that verifies age . . . or by any other reasonable measures that are feasible under available technology," then no liability will attach to the Web publisher even if a minor should nevertheless gain access to restricted material under COPA.'