geoegress opened this issue on Sep 14, 2006 · 76 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Thu, 14 September 2006 at 10:28 PM
This IS (or rather was) a Supreme Court case. It was mighty big in the news back then, when this ruling came down.
You can easily do a google on this. But here's a link:
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/LAW/04/16/scotus.virtual.child.porn/
Frankly, it's old news. And in spite of the ruling, I've yet to hear of any commercial sites being opened on that basis. Except perhaps for in countries like Indonesia. But they already had those types of sites operating out of that country, anyway.
It's......still yet to be well & truly resolved as to what this means. So far, no one has been foolish enough to test it in a major way. This decision was handed down -- and then for all intents and purposes it seemed to result in little-to-no actual change.
BTW - the makeup of the Court is already different today than what it was back when this.......ruling.......was made. It might not fare so well, next time around.