The definition of "Obscenity" has been utterly arbitrary for far too long, and a wedge for these lawyers in black robes to arbitrate free speech.
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"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
They have a very good case on getting the conviction thrown out, since the judge broke all sorts of rules and showed bias.
He will probably get a new trial, and hopefully the prosecution will not want to waste any more money on this.
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This one time, at Maradon! camp:
I mean that's fine and all, but what pisses me off is that they're able to say that it's illegal to video tape yourself peeing into the mouth of a consenting adult in the first place.
Unless I'm missing something, the criminal act was in sending obscene material through the U.S. mail, not in either the filming or the performance itself.
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Peanut butter ass Shaq Vorbis booooze lime pole over bench lick:
Unless I'm missing something, the criminal act was in sending obscene material through the U.S. mail, not in either the filming or the performance itself.
That only constituted some of the charges. His films were found to be "unprotected speech", whatever that is.
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Prosecutor Lisamarie Freitas spoke briefly about how Little had shot much of the five adjudged-obscene titles in his home, and how his Websites had been used to disseminate the promotional trailers that had also been found to be unprotected speech.
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Vorbising:
If something's ruled obscene, then it's not protected by the right to free speech. Thus, unprotected speech, which can have restrictions placed on its sale or transmission.
I'm aware of what "unprotected" means, what I want to know is why this particular speech should be deemed unprotected.
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Verily, Maradon! doth proclaim:
I'm aware of what "unprotected" means, what I want to know is why this particular speech should be deemed unprotected.
Well, it seems that the jury decided it didn't stand up to the Miller test, and found it to be obscene.
It doesn't seem catastrophic or frightening that a jury would decide that this sorta fringe fetish porn is obscene. You can still shit in your partner's urethra--Griswold v. Connecticut isn't changed. Hell, you can even video tape it if you want, and keep it playing on your TV. The State has a right to decide what sort of proscriptions it can make on obscene materials.
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Maradon! painfully thought these words up:
I'm aware of what "unprotected" means, what I want to know is why this particular speech should be deemed unprotected.
You're forgetting the classic legal definition of obscenity: "I cam't describe it, but I know it when I see it."
