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Till I read this thread, I'd always guessed that a jury made up of people in the adult industry would be a dream come true in the defense of a criminal obscenity trial.
The title of the thread - implying a line that somebody needs to set - is an affront to what I think freedom of speech means. Now, it's possible that people posting here are only talking about their own, personal moral tastes and values, and if that's the case, I respect all of those opinions and the people who assert them. But I'm afraid that some of them mean more than an expression of personal opinion and go to what society should permit.
No one has the right to tell anyone else what they can read. What they can view. What they can produce and take to market. If freedom of speech does not mean that, it does not mean anything.
No limit. No line. Nobody should go to jail for publishing anything.
If you can't accept that, you believe in censorship and you're just quibbling over the definition.
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Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice. . . Restraint in the pursuit of Justice is no virtue.
Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964
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