07-03-2011, 09:24 AM
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As for censorship for child protection under US laws ...
Quote:
U.S. Supreme Court
BUTLER v. MICHIGAN, 352 U.S. 380 (1957)
352 U.S. 380
We have before us legislation not reasonably restricted to the evil with which it is said to deal. The incidence of this enactment is to reduce the adult population of Michigan to reading only what is fit for children. It thereby [352 U.S. 380, 384] arbitrarily curtails one of those liberties of the individual, now enshrined in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, that history has attested as the indispensable conditions for the maintenance and progress of a free society. We are constrained to reverse this conviction.
Reversed.
MR. JUSTICE BLACK concurs in the result.
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