CHILD ONLINE PROTECTION ACT
Child Online Protection Act. A 1998 federal statute designed to control child pornography on the Internet by prohibiting Internet speech that is ¡°harmful to minors.¡± ? Unlike the Communications Decency Act, COPA does not apply to e-mail or chat-room communications. Among other things, COPA applies to sexually explicit material that appears to depict minors, even if the people are actually over 18 or the images are computer-generated and do not depict living people. The Supreme Court struck down portions of the Act in Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union, 535 U.S. 564, 122 S.Ct. 1700 (2002). ¡ª Abbr. COPA.What is the legal equivalence of CHILD ONLINE PROTECTION ACT in Chinese?