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Commission on Child Online Protection

The Child Online Protection Act 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. The United States federal courts have ruled that the law violates the constitutional protection of free speech, and therefore have blocked it from taking effect. Wikipedia*

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Commission on Child Online Protection has hosted 1 event in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2000 Public Hearing.

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    Protecting Children Online

    The Commission on Child Online Protection held a hearing on the internet and child protection. Commission members heard testi…

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