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  • Modern Obscenity


    Cubik's RubeAuthority 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 HeadlinesAuthority 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 ONlineAuthority 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 ReaderAuthority 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 > TheaterAuthority Authority: 865
    Joel J. Tyler in 1966.
    2 weeks ago
  • Porn again.


    MetaFilterAuthority 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.comAuthority 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 DailyAuthority 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|GenderAuthority 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 ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting: The Spielberg Exception and Whos Illin?


    NYT > TheaterAuthority 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 > TheaterAuthority 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 UnderstandAuthority 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


    BlawgletterAuthority 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 > TheaterAuthority 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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