From: IN%"declan+@CMU.EDU" "Declan B. McCullagh" 17-FEB-1996 18:07:51.71
A lawsuit against the atheist would not be effective and could result in a countersuit for abuse of process.
Huh? You seem to have misinterpreted what I said. The atheist, who has a child that reads the net, sues a Christian Fundamentalist organization (say, one of the Southern Baptist seminaries) for having a copy of the Bible - which contains material that is among the "seven dirty words" or whatever - online, where the child can read it. The CDA essentially says that a child reading indecent materials is doing harm to the child (a nice bit of nonsense), which gives the government the (undeserved) power to regulate such interactions. A countersuit will be somewhat difficult, since the organization in question (the one with the Bible online) is breaking the law; while there have been burglar suing because of broken leg cases, I believe that such are generally thrown out - possibly due to laws on the subject. Now, the jury won't find the seminary or whoever liable... but it would create some publicity and tie the sued organization up for a while. It's something that I'd encourage an atheist organization to sponsor. -Allen