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Expressing an opinion is not obscenity. Showing images for provocation is obescenity. The I know it when I see it argument is ridiculous. The Supreme Court rule
by iphorde 6y ago
Expressing an opinion is not obscenity. Showing images for provocation is obescenity. The I know it when I see it argument is ridiculous. The Supreme Court ruled in Miller v. California that obscenity is content that is without socially redeeming value to that which lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
Now you can argue the points of what has literary value, but the written word has always had literary value, no matter how grotesque.
We don't burn books in this country.
- confidantlake 6y agoIf I draw a stick-figure and label it The Prophet Muhammad should that be banned? After all my drawing skills are terrible and it is likely to provoke people. But that doesn't seem very free to me.
- iphorde 6y agoGiven the Supreme Court has said that would have artistic value, you can do what you want.