Porn

I don't know if you guys have seen this yet, but the Supreme Court just handed down a decision that blocks the Child Online Protection Act from taking effect. This act would have required sites containing "objectionable material" to use age verification before allowing users access to said material. The Supreme Court said, in a 5-4 split, that this was too restrictive, and it wasn't clear that the onus of protecting children from porn needed to be on the webmasters, rather than on the individual users. This seems like a relatively "liberal" decision, so it makes sense that among the majority were Ginsburg, Souter, and Stevens (pretty consistent liberals), and Kennedy (probably the most liberal conservative on the court). But I think that it is funny that the majority in a case about preserving easy access to pornography was rounded out by...wait for it...Clarence Thomas.