CNET: Court strikes down Pennsylvania porn law

An effort by the conservative Pennsylvania state government to ban a blacklist of sites that included some pornography sites (and some odd non-porn choices) finally was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge. The law put in place criminal penalties for internet service providers that allowed the sites to be viewed. Some large corporate ISPs, like MCI, caved to aggressive Pennsylvania Attorney General threats - and, later, court decisions - effectively blocking Pennsylvania's blacklist for all North American subscribers. The judge wrote that there was "an abundance of evidence that implementation of the Act has resulted in massive suppression of speech."