The publishers of Annoy.com - the new in-your-face political Web site - and the Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court Tuesday, supporting the ACLU's challenge to the Communications Decency Act.
"It's time for sycophantic politicians and the media to stop using children as pawns, and to educate themselves about the Internet in a manner that appropriately befits the responsibility of looking after and teaching children," said Clinton D. Fein, president of ApolloMedia Corporation and publisher of Annoy.com.
ApolloMedia filed its own suit against Attorney General Janet Reno, protesting a different provision of the CDA in January, when the company launched Annoy.com. ApolloMedia is challenging the fact that the CDA criminalizes any "indecent" computer communications intended to "annoy" another person.
The Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom is a minority bar association composed of more than 500 lesbian, gay, and bisexual members of the San Francisco Bay Area legal community.
