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Originally Posted by TheDA
These new guidelines actually don't go that much farther than what was already known and things are about as clear as mud.
A piss-poor attempt at clarification. If you are pulled up before the courts, a jury will still be the ones to decide based on their interpretation of it.
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And that has always been the deciding factor for the prosecutors, can they get a jury to agree with their interpretation? In the distant past they had good results, then in the 60s and 70s the juries were laughing them out of court. The only way they could get a conviction was to get a senile judge who hated porn.
The law states something like this "Likely to corrupt and deprave the audience it is intended for."
I have actually sat in the courtroom, in the seats at the back, after the jury had seen the film that was considered to corrupt and deprave and the defense barrister asked the jury if any of them felt corrupted and depraved? The film featured anal sex.
This was in the 80s and the jury threw it out.
This new law is going to go the same way unless it's very extreme and there are mainstream films that could fall foul of it.