It was Friedrich Nietzsche's phrase, now obviously the ACLU's operating philosophy--"the transvaluation of all values."
And so wrote a Fed Circuit Court judge in Philadelphia (no surprise) in deciding that Internet porn directed at children is "protected" by the 1st Amendment.
Senior U.S. District Judge Lowell Reed Jr., who presided over the four-week trial last fall, ruled in favor of the American Civil Liberties Union that the 1998 Child Online Protection Act (COPA) violated a constitutional right to free speech.
..."Perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if First Amendment protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped away in the name of their protection," wrote Reed in his 84-page long decision.
...COPA would have criminalized US-based websites that allow children to access material deemed "harmful to minors" according to "contemporary community standards."
...however the ACLU representing a cadre of "sexual health" sites, Salon.com, obgyn.net, the Philadelphia Gay News, and others objected that more than just pornographers would be subject to the restrictions of COPA.
Well, well. Salon.com and the Philly Gay News. One wonders what interest THEY have in pushing porn to kids.
We already know about the ACLU's transvaluation of all values.
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