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Interestingly, Cambria's testimony seemed to be as much centered on "rating systems" as anything else. I think that a modified COPA that would require (a) the adult industry to use a meta tag or similar that states "adult content" (not IRCA or whatever, as it is insanely burdonsome to register each individual HTML pages and to put these individual codes into pages) and that (b) the browser manufactures might be legally obliged to filter based on that tag.
The real question I guess comes down to the unlock mechanism. Some have suggested that individual ISPs might be responsible to "allow" adult content on a per user basis, but that would seem to be both extreme and likely to be found to unduly restrict free speech (indivudal ISPs could make it almost impossible to access adult material, or for religeous or personal reasons decline to allow access to any adult material). It would also make it a free for all for all states, which could possibly enforce community standards in the types of sites permitted or not, which would effectively block all porn.
A simple meta tag "rating" with value = "ADULT" or value = "XXX" or 14+, 18+ NA/AO or whatever there system is (matching to Vchip, example) would certainly go a long way towards making our industry look smart.
Alex
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