"There are a number of plausible and less restrictive alternatives to the statute. The primary alternative considered by the District Court was blocking and filtering software. Blocking and filtering software is an alternative less restrictive than COPA and, in addition, likely more effective as a means of restricting children's access to materials deemed harmful to them."
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's majority ruling.
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"I cannot accept (the majority's) conclusion that Congress could have accomplished its statutory objective
protecting children from commercial pornography on the Internet in other, less restrictive ways."
Justice Stephen Breyer in dissent.
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