It Ain’t About Porn

Saturday, August 30th, 2003 @ 2:27 am | Uncategorized
It Ain’t About Porn… And It Ain’t Nothin’ New

The Supreme Court has ruled that to overcome a presumption that sexually oriented material is protected under the 1st Amendment, prosecutors must prove that an average person applying “contemporary community standards” would find it “patently offensive” and without literary or artistic merit.

Even under that subjective standard, “we can prohibit all hard-core pornography” if the Justice Department is willing to pursue it…

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