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- From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
- Subject: Re: What is pornography, anyway?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.175720.25210@bcars6a8.bnr.ca>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:57:20 GMT
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- In article <BxtEJ3.50I@cs.uiuc.edu> kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
- |>But the bottom of the line federal line in the US is:
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- |>Depictions of children under the age of 18 engaged in sex or posed to
- |>sexually tittilate are illegal.
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- |I don't have a copy of the law, but it is refered to in the Supreme
- |Court's _Keith Jacobson v. United States_ decision, 90-1124:
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- | "[The law] requires only knowing receipt of visual depictions
- | produced by using minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
- | See 18 U.S.C. 2252(a)(2); United States v. Moncini, 882 F.2d
- | 401, 404-406 (CA9 1989)." [Info on on-line access to recent
- | Court decisions enclosed.]
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- |This is consistent the only legitimate purpose of child pornography
- |laws: to stop people from sexually abusing childern in order to make
- |pornography.
-
- |>The government does not have to prove whether it is pornographic or not.
- |[...]
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- |Huh? [Info on on-line access to the U.S. Contitution enclosed.]
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- Why the "huh?"? The definition you quote isn't based around pornography.
- Therefore, the government doesn't have to prove that it's pornographic,
- obscene, lacks artistic merit, or falls outside "community standards" or
- anything else like that.
-
- All it has to prove is that it is sexually explicit visual depictions produced
- with minors. That's going to be pretty easy to determine except in a
- few marginal cases.
-