Today the United States Supreme Court, in an balanced opinion written by Justice Scalia, upheld a law designed to attack the tsunami of internet sites wherein participants share images of child pornography.  The law proscribes a five-year mandatory prison term for promoting, or pandering, child pornography. It does not require that someone actually possesses child pornography. 

Speaking for the 7-2 majority, Justice Scalia said that do not apply to "offers to provide or requests to obtain child pornography," Scalia said that the First Amendment does not protect "offers to provide or requests to obtain child pornography."  Critics of the narrow decision argue that the law could infringe upon protected speech.

For a great analysis of the decision, see an article by Warren Ritchey at the Christian Science Monitor (available here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080520/ts_csm/aporn)