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Obscenity Defined
Something that is indecent and offensive. Obscene material is usually of an explicit sexual nature. A current national debate concerns the proliferation of obscene material over the Internet, and whether it should be censored. Those who oppose censorship often cite free speech, although in 1957 the Supreme Court ruled that obscenity was not protected under the First Amendment. However, one of the problems is that a workable definition of obscenity is hard to come by. Is something obscene, as some argue, if it violates "community standards"? But this begs the question of which community one is talking about, since standards are not uniform throughout the country, nor, perhaps, are they so within different segments of the same community.
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- SafeLibraries. org
- Westlaw article obscenity
- Independent: Blogger who wrote about killing Girls Aloud cleared: "Darryn Walker's case was the first time that the 1959 Obscene Publications Act had been applied to written material on the internet. His case was regarded as a test which could have had far-reaching ramifications for bloggers and publishers of online fiction. ... Mr Walker, 35, was arrested in February 2008 by officers from Scotland Yard's Obscene Publications Unit who were alerted to his story by the Internet Watch Foundation.&qu ot;
- BBC NEWS | UK | Obscene stories or free speech?: Obscenity laws are rarely used, especially for content on the internet, and where they are invoked, it is almost always images, not words, that are the subject. The standard in such cases is whether the material is likely "to deprave or corrupt those reading or viewing it", but historically this has proved very hard to meet.
Thu Jun 18
- Watch Your Language or Go to Prison for E-Mail Obscenity?: Sharing an obscene sexual fantasy over e-mail is a federal crime that enjoys no protection under the First Amendment, a federal appeals court said Monday, in a decision that drew sharp dissent from one judge and potentially set the stage for a Supreme Court appeal.
- New England Watch and Ward Society. Records, 1918-1957: Finding Aid
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