At odds with what gore said.....

WASHINGTON (Reuter) - President Clinton says the Communications Decency Act is a legal way to protect children from online obscenity, despite a three-judge panel's ruling that blocks large parts of the act. ``I remain convinced, as I was when I signed the bill, that our Constitution allows us to help parents by enforcing this Act to prevent children from being exposed to objectionable material transmitted through computer networks,'' Clinton said in a statement Wednesday. He said he would continue to work to shield children from such material and supports ``the development and widespread availability of products that allow both parents and schools to block objectionable materials from reaching computers that children use.'' Clinton also applauded the communications industry's efforts to rate Internet sites so they are compatible with blocking techniques. The act, signed into law as part of the sweeping Telecommunications Act of 1996, prohibits the distribution to minors of indecent or ``patently offensive'' materials over computer networks. The three judges issued an injunction blocking portions of the Communications Decency Act, but let stand prohibitions against obscenity and child pornography and types of speech that are not constitutionally protected.

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