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To: Sandy
If what you say is true, then excellent Sandy. However I'm not going to appologize to anyone for describing in graphic details what some of these child porn videos depict. If you don't like it I suggest you find another thread to frequent. When it comes to child pornography I'm not going to mince words. I won't for you or anyone else. People need to know what we're talking about here and I'm not going to avoid being frank.
137 posted on 07/17/2002 11:09:00 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: DoughtyOne
If what you say is true

It's true. I gather you either didn't read the Supreme Court decision or didn't understand the issue.

. . . we may assume that the apparent age of persons engaged in sexual conduct is relevant to whether a depiction offends community standards. Pictures of young children engaged in certain acts might be obscene where similar depictions of adults, or perhaps even older adolescents, would not. The CPPA, however, is not directed at speech that is obscene [my bold]; Congress has proscribed those materials through a separate statute. 18 U. S. C. §§1460-1466. Like the law in Ferber, the CPPA seeks to reach beyond obscenity, and it makes no attempt to conform to the Miller standard [my bold]. For instance, the statute would reach visual depictions, such as movies, even if they have redeeming social value.

The principal question to be resolved, then, is whether the CPPA is constitutional where it proscribes a significant universe of speech that is neither obscene under Miller nor child pornography under Ferber [my bold] . . .

Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition

Read the opinion. Federal and state obscenity laws stand, as do Miller and Ferber.
140 posted on 07/17/2002 11:31:58 PM PDT by Sandy
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