Resumen
The article focuses on the star report meant for the U.S. Congress, to be posted promptly on the Internet. Following information should be made available on the Net, voting records, texts of bills and amendments, financial disclosure reports and expert testimony. The Starr Report contains material that might be considered "patently offensive" to minors under the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), also known as CDA2 in reference to the Communications Decency Act, the first attempt by Congress to censor the Net against "indecent" material. The CDA was determined to be unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. Many of the people who sponsored the COPA were the same people who were most eager to post the Starr Report on the Net. The COPA states that commercial sites with "harmful" material must block access by children under the age of 17. Even if a site does not charge for access, it could be considered commercial if it contains advertisements from which it makes money. Therefore, it would be legal for children to access the Starr Report on government sites, but illegal under the COPA for them to access it on, say, the "New York Times" online site.