CCT206H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: American Civil Liberties Union, Hardcore Pornography, Potter Stewart
15 Mar 2018
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Cct208h5 - law, technology and culture (winter 2018) "supreme court justice potter stewart: "i shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material i understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"], and perhaps i could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But i know it when i see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that. "(a) whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the theme take as a whole appeals to prurient interest" "(b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, seuxal conduct or excretory functions specifically defined by applicable state law; and" "(c) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value" Venue shopping - choose the location that is more conservative/liberal when dealing with obscenity charges. First attempt by congress to regulate obscene and indecent internet content.
