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• in Politics
  Why Weiner Has to Go! A Video Presentation
  Weiner did something naughty. He must go so that Democrats might grow a spine and learn how to recognize real obscenity when they SEE it.
  by parkypundit / on Jun 12, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “obscenity”

 

• Modern Obscenity

  
  Cubik's Rube — Authority: 415
  If you weren’t following the big Obscenity Trial at the start of the year, it’s worth catching up on, either through the defense lawyer ‘s own account or that of David Allen Green for the New Statesman. It concerns the sale of some particular styles of hardcore pornography (described more explicitly at the ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Obscenity

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 699
  By Mr. Fish Related Entries January 13, 2012 Yellow January 11, 2012 The Cartoonist
  2 weeks ago

• MMMM # 182 -- They know It When They Hear or See It

  
  Tim Lennox OFFair and ONline — Authority: 114
       The Supreme Court heard arguments last week  over nudity and/or "obscene" language on broadcast radio and TV. Think Janet Jackson (and why is Justin Timberlake always left out of the telling of that Super Bowl incident?)      Among the points made: "...the FCC had received complaints about the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Depictions of Breastfeeding, Including Nudity, are neither Sick nor Illegal

  
  Life as a Reader — Authority: 413
  Prairie Nymph recently had an experience that had her pretty upset, and after I read it, I was pretty disgusted with her in-laws ignorance and prejudice as well. This person insinuated that a portrait of a naked baby breastfeeding was an issue that would concern social services. From the description, Im guessing it ...
  2 weeks ago

• Joel J. Tyler, Judge Who Ruled ‘Deep Throat’ Obscene, Dies at 90

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 865
  Joel J. Tyler in 1966.
  2 weeks ago

• Porn again.

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 720
  Whats one thing the major GOP candidates can all agree on ? Why, the need to be hard on porn , of course. Morality in Media (MIM, previously ) recently revealed that presidential hopefuls Santorum, Romney, and Gingrich had all affirmed the groups drive for " enforcement of obscenity laws ". And the ...
  2 weeks ago

• TV’s Real Indecency: Our Concern Over Nudity and Swearing is Misguided

  
  TIME.com — Authority: 647
  There’s something ironic and misguided about the Supreme Court’s delicate concern for our television-watching sensibilities. The Justices are currently debating whether the FCC can continue to enforce its policies on nudity and profanity on broadcast TV, with an ancient episode of the now-defunct show NYPD Blue ...
  2 weeks ago

• Personhood Arkansas Refiles Pro-life Amendment

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 142
  Little Rock, AR (PRWEB) January 11, 2012Personhood Arkansas has resubmitted a state constitutional amendment that would guarantee the right to life of all human beings. Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel cited multiple reasons for rejecting the measure last week. The pro-life group has adopted several of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obscenity Trial

  
  en|Gender — Authority: 111
  On this day in 1928 police seized 800 copies of Radclyffe Hall’s lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness. It would be put on trial as obscenity later in 1928 under the Obscene Publications Act of 1857; Virginia Woolf came to the trial but wasn’t allowed to provide testimony — nobody was. Interestingly, 1928 was ...
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• Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting: The Spielberg Exception and Whos Illin?

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 865
  MittRomneys early win leaves anchors scrambling and a dispute between Google and Twitter gets personal.
  2 weeks ago

• Editorial: One First Amendment

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 865
  The Supreme Court should end the Federal Communications Commission’s misguided indecency policy for radio and television broadcasts.
  3 weeks ago

• ”Mister Chief Justice, this is a big @#$% deal!” [CJA]

  
  Comics I Don't Understand — Authority: 120
  The Supreme Court hears arguments about removing broadcast television’s ban on nudity and bad language
  3 weeks ago

• Quote of the Day: Elena Kagan

  
  Blawgletter — Authority: 449
  Well, even if some regulation is permissible, the kind of regulation that the FCC has done here is regulation that gives it complete discretion as to what kind of speech to go after and what not to go after; that it has not tied itself in any way to any kinds of standards. And, its, you know, evident in the notion ...
  3 weeks ago

• Supreme Court Weighs Relevance of Decades-Old Broadcast Decency Rules

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 865
  The Supreme Court justices heard arguments on whether the government still has good reason to regulate cursing and nudity on broadcast television.
  3 weeks ago

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