CCT206H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Potter Stewart, Dominick Fernow, Gramophone Record

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

Document Summary

Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest: 2. Whether the work depicts, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct or excretory functions specifically defined by applicable state law: 3. Imposes criminal sanction on anyone who: 1. In trying to protect children, they abridged the right of parents to be parents (the parents should decide what material was indecent for their children) Impacted non-commercial speech: commercial speech typically is not afforded as much 1st. Amendment: the overbreadth doctrine: means that if you are going to try and regulate speech, you have to do it in the narrowest way possible. Imposes requirements on schools and libraries that receive discounts for. It"s not about you and your subjectivity, but what it would be for all other fellow citizens.