[Right Wing Professor]

The obscenity genie flew out of the bottle when the internet was invented, and advances in computer software have made pornographjy essentially unprohibitable. With commercial software and an absolute minimum of talent, almost anyone can produce erotica de novo, without using human actors at all. So what are you going to do? Ban computers? Ban legitimate figure-rendering software that people also use to produce vanilla animations?

I suggest you find another windmill to tilt at.

[Dead Corpse]

I've got a coffee table book at home that has nothing but vintage tin plate porno in it. Sex has been around a long time.

I'm willing to bet that there are cave drawings somewhere with priapic activities lewdly depicted.

[Tailgunner Joe]

The laws against obscenity apply even to the electronic transmission of computer files. The medium is irrelevant. In 1996, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the sentences of a California couple who had been convicted on Federal obscenity charges in U.S. District Court in Memphis, Tenn. The Court of Appeals rejected defendants' argument that the materials should have been judged by the community standards of California rather than Tennessee. "Federal obscenity laws, by virtue of their inherent nexus to interstate and foreign commerce, generally involve acts in more than one jurisdiction or state. Furthermore, it is well established that there is no constitutional impediment to the government's power to prosecute pornography dealers in any district into which the material is sent," the Court stated. (United States v. Thomas). The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the case.

In May 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals that invalidated the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), which restricts children's access to obscene for minors material on the World Wide Web. In their decision (Ashcroft v. ACLU, No. 00-1293), five of the justices concluded that federal obscenity laws were not unconstitutional as applied to the Internet solely because obscenity laws require application of "community standards."

[Harvey Rolex]

Maybe their computer's should be blown up - oh wait that was for downloading music - Hah I've got it - they can send a letter saying do not view porn - err - wait, that's being done with illegal downloaders. Well I guess we're just going to have to have pornography for some and not for others.