What does COPA stand for?

Child Online Protection Act (US internet legislation)

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Information technology (IT) and computers

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The archived sites include the understandable — the Child Online Protection Act Commission of 2000 — and the unintelligible.

Government Web sites kept alive at Cyber Cemetery

Leahy said that during previous service in the Justice Department, Ogden "aggressively defended" the constitutionality of the Child Online Protection Act and the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996.

Senate fills No. 2, 3 Justice Department positions

The Child Online Protection Act made it a crime to put sexually explicit material on a Web site for commercial gain unless the sponsor used some means to keep out minors.

Justices let die Internet porn law; Free-speech issue; Courts have ...

The federal agency wants the 1 million Web sites indexed by Google and a list of search terms used during any one-week period to bolster its defense of its Child Online Protection Act.

Snooping and subpoenas

Justice Department defend the constitutionality of the 1998 Child Online Protection Act, which was struck down by the Supreme Court two years ago.

EDITORIAL PRIVACY NAIVETE FEDS HAVE NO RIGHT TO GOOGLE'S DATA - BUT ...

With this kind of clout, Big Porn and its allies have been able to evade, side-track, or defeat every major legislative effort to protect children from exposure to its sleaze, including the Child Online Protection Act signed by Bill Clinton and passed into law in 1998.

Online porn: how do we keep it from our kids?

In the case challenging the Child Online Protection Act of 1998 (COPA) - which would ban Web site operators from publishing materials deemed harmful to minors unless their sites install electronic screening systems - the Supreme Court said general community standards could be used to determine what material constituted a threat to minors.

Children's Internet Protection Act Struck Down As Unconstitutional

Lawmakers responded in 1998 by passing a narrower anti-pornography bill, the Child Online Protection Act.

Don't mess with the net. (Regulation)