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Article New York Times
The New York Times
Hearings End in Online Pornography Case
By PAMELA MENDELS
PHILADELPHIA -- A federal online pornography law will either unconstitutionally chill
free speech on a variety of commercial Web sites or spur the creation of sensible screens
between children and sites that exist to sell pornography.
Those were the opposing views expressed Wednesday during the final day of hearings in
United States District Court here to decide whether the new law, the Child …
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showed last 75 words of 791 total…Bhattacharyya insisted, on the contrary,
that educational and medical material would be protected under the broader meaning of
"scientific, literary, artistic, or political" content.
The hearings, originally scheduled to last three days, in fact went on twice as long. The
judge, in closing the hearings Wednesday morning, characterized the case as one of "major
importance as a nationwide statute." In deciding the case, he said that he would "carry the
burden" that the case requires.
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