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U.S. Obscenity Law

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	== U.S. Obscenity Law ==		== U.S. Obscenity Law ==

	~~Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.~~		The basic guidelines for the trier of fact must be: (a) whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest, (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and (c) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
	~~—Marilyn Manson~~ (~~1999~~), ~~“I Don’t Like~~ the ~~Media but~~ the ~~Media Likes Me”~~


	== Cases ==		== Cases ==

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	Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union 521 U.S. 844 (“ACLU I”)		Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union 521 U.S. 844 (“ACLU I”)
	-1997		-1997
	-addressed obscenity in the field of new media		-addressed obscenity in the field of new media
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	Ashcroft v. Civil Liberties Union (00-1293) 535 U.S. 564 (2002) 217 F.3d 162 (“ACLU II”)		Ashcroft v. Civil Liberties Union (00-1293) 535 U.S. 564 (2002) 217 F.3d 162 (“ACLU II”)
	-upheld the Constitutionality of COPA and deemed its use of 'community standards’ to identify ‘material that is harmful to minors’		-upheld the Constitutionality of COPA and deemed its use of 'community standards’ to identify ‘material that is harmful to minors’ acceptable practice under the first amendment


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	== References ==		== References ==
	http://www.dictionary.com/browse/obscenity		http://www.dictionary.com/browse/obscenity
			https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/obscenity

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== About ==

Obscenity means having the character or quality of being indecent or lewd.

== U.S. Obscenity Law ==

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
—Marilyn Manson (1999), “I Don’t Like the Media but the Media Likes Me”

== Cases ==

Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union 521 U.S. 844 (“ACLU I”)
-1997
-addressed obscenity in the field of new media
-challenged Communications Decency Act (CDA)
-Congress passed the Child Online Protection Act (COPA)

Ashcroft v. Civil Liberties Union (00-1293) 535 U.S. 564 (2002) 217 F.3d 162 (“ACLU II”)
-upheld the Constitutionality of COPA and deemed its use of 'community standards’ to identify ‘material that is harmful to minors’

== References ==
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/obscenity