-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- "Perry E. Metzger" <uunet!lehman.com!pmetzger> writes:

I'll remind you that the supreme court has held that text-only works can not be held to be obscene. You can write anything you want, including explicit descriptions of sodomizing dead children, and it can not be censored.

As I mentioned to Perry in E-mail, the above is incorrect. Pure text can be obscene and hence unprotected by the First Amendment. Kaplan v. California, 413 U.S. 115, 118-119, 93 S.Ct. 2680, 2683-2684 (1973). Others here (Mike Godwin?) can likely provide a much better discussion of just where this fits into First Amendment law; Shepherds' reveals no more recent decisions which modify the holding in Kaplan. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.4 iQCVAgUBLVxTKX3YhjZY3fMNAQEd2wP7BmUq0bUzhdhSg9+/Y/+by1C+p0dEu2ef Q8c0nlzkux6cUBQPrr18/c+dAmMQ4x+Dofr/0N1jF+q9uffnVmeVa9qQjzB1SzJy 9PCsXI7x/7B1bNZFuegliJvUn7aD7UqBBS9Au7/nlZ6Ky8Gb6G0HadrIaZyP9yQy PuQh+QDXTnY= =F0SC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Greg Broiles ".. has bizarre Cyberanarchist theories relating greg@goldenbear.com to human punishment." -- L. Detweiler