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Congress suffered another setback Thursday in its ongoing efforts to shield children from sexually explicit content online when a federal judge struck down the Child Online Protection Act, a 1998 federal law that makes it a crime for commercial Web site operators to allow children access to "harmful" material. The crux of Senior U.S. District Judge Lowell Reed Jr.'s reasoning was that there are less-restrictive means available for protecting children than a criminal statute that will have a chilling effect.