CCT206H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gramophone Record, Hardcore Pornography, Asset Forfeiture

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT206H5
• Professor: Brett Caraway

Document Summary

Obscenity: jacobellis v. ohio, 1964, 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. Communications decency act (cd), 1996: first attempt by congress to regulate obscene and indecent internet content. Ashcroft v. american civil liberties union, 2002: held that copa was unconstitutional, overbreadth doctrine. Injunction granted: likely violated 1st amendment, copa relied on age verification and credit card use, less restrictive means of regulation online pornography available, filtering software was a more effective means of blocking access by minors. Children"s internet protection act (cipa), 2000: requires schools and libraries to use internet filters and other means to protect children from harmful online content. Imposes requirements on schools and libraries that receive discounts for internet access: leverages universal service fund discounts.