On Wed, 8 Feb 1995, L. McCarthy wrote:
The battle over "obscenity" has been fought long and hard.
"Indecency" seems a remarkably nebulous term (and, of course, ludicrously Victorian). I'd be interested in seeing a legal definition, and alarmed if there isn't one (yet).
Last I heard, the Supreme Court had never made a ruling on this. They copped out and left it up to "Community Standards." This is partially why the AA bbs case was sucessfuly prosecuted in another state.
Don't even get me started on the "nudity" portion. I'm sure Jesse Helms is already licking his lips over this one.
Under the new legislation, might this not be illegal? ;) On another note, I mailed Stanton McClandish to find out what EFF's position is on this. I tried browsing their archives, but lots of stuff seems to have vanished from there. Sam Sam