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Well the US has had obscenity laws in place until recently. It's just that the people who decided what was "upsetting" were politicians rather than students and
by qntty 10y ago
Well the US has had obscenity laws in place until recently. It's just that the people who decided what was "upsetting" were politicians rather than students and had the power to get rid of it completely.
- cmdrfred 10y agoIn practice those laws rarely if ever were applied to college classroom or similar event. Speech within a private facility by individuals has always been protected.
- qntty 10y agoWell yeah, but if a book can never get published because of obscenity laws, it will never be discussed in a classroom. The law doesn't even need to be actually enforced very often to have an effect. The fact that authors know that their books might be labeled as obscene will make them censor themselves.
- slavik81 10y agoThe United States still has obscenity laws. For example, Alabama's Anti-Obscenity Enforcement Act [1]. It was challenged, but the Supreme Court declined to hear the case. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Obscenity_Enforcement_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Obscenity_Enforcement_Act