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What law makes possession of the video illegal? The post mentioned "possession of objectionable material" is illegal, but that sounds way to vague.
by ihuman 8y ago
What law makes possession of the video illegal? The post mentioned "possession of objectionable material" is illegal, but that sounds way to vague.
- microcolonel 8y agoVagueness doctrine is an American innovation, as far as I'm aware.
- danso 8y agoWas curious to see if it drew from somewhere like British common law, but didn't see it in the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagueness_doctrine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagueness_doctrine > The following pronouncement of the void for vagueness doctrine was made by Justice Sutherland in Connally v. General Construction Co., 269 U.S. 385, 391 (1926): > [T]he terms of a penal statute [...] must be sufficiently explicit to inform those who are subject to it what conduct on their part will render them liable to its penalties… and a statute which either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application violates the first essential of due process of law.
- wbl 8y agoNZ and Australia have censorship laws. Needless to say LGBTQ texts were censored far more than straight ones.