There are a lot of people that would like to fix blame on pornography for the moral decline in society.
Trump signs anti-pornography pledge | Washington Examiner
from a real right wing media source
Quote:
"Whereas
, The First Amendment is a foundational cornerstone of the Constitution. Not all
written or visual material, however, is protected under the First Amendment. The United States
Supreme Court has ruled there are four categories of pornography that are not entitled to full
First Amendment protection, and which can be restricted or proscribed altogether. With respect
to the Internet, those categories include the obscenity and child pornography laws. "
"can be restricted or proscribed"
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*obscenity* is a hot button word -- there is legal obscenity and obscenity in the greater social sexual contest. The late Justice Scala once said:
Quote:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/98-1682.ZD.html
UNITED STATES V. PLAYBOY ENTERTAINMENTGROUP, INC. (98-1682) 529 U.S. 803 (2000)
[W]e are more permissive of government regulation in these circumstances because it is clear from the context in which exchanges between such businesses and their customers occur that neither the merchant nor the buyer is interested in the work?s literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. ?The deliberate representation of petitioner?s publications as erotically arousing . . . stimulate[s] the reader to accept them as prurient; he looks for titillation, not for saving intellectual content.? Id., at 470. Thus, a business that ?(1) offer[s] ? hardcore sexual material, (2) as a constant and intentional objective of [its] business, [and] (3) seek[s] to promote it as such? finds no sanctuary in the First Amendment. FW/PBS, supra, at 261 (Scalia J., concurring in part and dissenting in part). ...
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pro·scribe
prōˈskrīb/
verb
past tense: proscribed; past participle: proscribed
forbid, especially by law.
"strikes remained proscribed in the armed forces"
synonyms: forbid, prohibit,
ban, bar, interdict,
make illegal, embargo,
outlaw, disallow, veto; enjoin
"gambling was proscribed"
antonyms: allow, permit
denounce or condemn.
"certain practices that the Catholic Church proscribed, such as polygyny"
synonyms: condemn, denounce, attack, criticize, censure, damn, reject, taboo
"the book was proscribed by the Church"
antonyms: authorize, accept
historical
outlaw (someone).
You sir, are fucking simple minded or just ignorant.