| ] State attorneys opposing a challenge to the Pennsylvania] law that requires ISPs to block access to websites
 ] containing child pornography argued to a Philadelphia
 ] federal court this week that "a URL is neither a person,
 ] nor a real forum, nor a limited commodity."
 ]
 ] "It is a little string of letters and numbers that acts
 ] as a superficial label," they argued in a brief.
 ] "Disablement of an ISP's customers' access to a
 ] particular URL for even an indefinite time does not
 ] implicate First Amendment rights."
 Child porn clearly poses a dangerous threat to our society.  Not only is it a product of despicable crime against children, but our outrage towards it causes some really bone head laws to get made. Wired News: Child Porn Law Debated in Court |