05-18-2016, 03:02 PM
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Wheeler can say whatever he wants but the US Supreme Court has already decided these matters.
MILLER v. CALIFORNIA | FindLaw
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/394/557
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The Supreme Court of the United States, however, per Justice Marshall, unanimously overturned the earlier decision and invalidated all state laws that forbade the private possession of materials judged obscene, on the grounds of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Justices Stewart, Brennan, and White, contributed a joint concurring opinion. Justice Hugo Black also concurred, with a separate opinion having to do with the Fourth Amendment search and seizure provision. The case also established an implied right to pornography.
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That should read ' lawful' pornography.
The Rise And Fall Of FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's Internet Empire
Contradicting citation;
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1462
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(a) any obscene, lewd, lascivious, or filthy book, pamphlet, picture, motion-picture film, paper, letter, writing, print, or other matter of indecent character; or
(b) any obscene, lewd, lascivious, or filthy phonograph recording, electrical transcription, or other article or thing capable of producing sound; or
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commun...ns_Decency_Act
With regard to the Communications Decency Act: Reno v. ACLU, the United States Supreme Court struck the anti-indecency provisions of the Act.
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