COPA finally dead

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Ten years of futility: COPA finally, truly dead
By Nate Anderson
January 21, 2009

COPA. 1998-2008. Requiescat in Pace.

The Child Online Protection Act, now a decade old, appears to be permanently, completely, and otherwise absolutely dead now that the Supreme Court has rejected Bush Administration pleas to consider reviving the law one more time. According to the Associated Press, the rejection was made without comment by the justices.

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Note that COPA is different from COPPA: Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. I had to Google this to find out the difference myself.