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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
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- Subject: Re: What is pornography, anyway?
- Message-ID: <BxxAKw.4xr@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:43:43 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cs.BxxAKw.4xr
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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- rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
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- [...]
- >In Massachusetts, all depictions of naked children that show the genitals
- >are obscene.
- [...]
-
- This is wrong on two counts.
-
- First, "obscene" refers to the Miller test, not child porn.
-
- Two, the Massachusetts law that defined all depictions of nude
- childern as illegal child porn was overturned by the Massachusetts'
- highest state court as an unconsititionally broad violation of freedom
- of expression. (The current Massachsetts law is narrower but still
- pretty broad; as far as I know it has not been tested in court.)
- See Silvers' paper for details.
-
- - Carl
-
-
- ANNOTATED REFERENCES
-
- (All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.)
-
- =================
- law/miller
- =================
- * Expression -- Obscenity -- Law -- Miller
-
- The Supreme Court's definition of obscenity (the so-called _Miller_
- test)
-
- =================
- law/child-porn.silvers
- =================
- * Expression -- Child Porn -- Silvers
-
- The Application of Child Pornography Statutes to Non-Obscene Art and
- Family Photography by Jolyon Silversmith, silvers3@husc8.harvard.edu.
- It is a term paper written in May, 1992 for Government 1341:
- Constitutional Law at Harvard University.
-
- =================
- =================
-
- If you have gopher, you can browse the CAF archive with the command
- gopher gopher.eff.org
-
- These document(s) are also available by anonymous ftp (the preferred
- method) and by email. To get the file(s) via ftp, do an anonymous ftp
- to ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4), and get file(s):
-
- pub/academic/law/miller
- pub/academic/law/child-porn.silvers
-
- To get the file(s) by email, send email to archive-server@eff.org.
- Include the line(s) (be sure to include the space before the file
- name):
-
- send acad-freedom/law miller
- send acad-freedom/law child-porn.silvers
-
-
- --
- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-