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Have the Feds gone soft on porn?

By Alliance Alert

(Warning graphic images, descriptions, and language) Stephanie Mencimer writing at Mother Jones: "On Tuesday, a group of anti-porn activists and scholars arrived on Capitol Hill to brief members of Congress and their staffs and to call for beefed-up federal enforcement of obscenity laws. . . . Christian-right groups have been complaining about porn forever, of course, and Trueman, a lawyer with the anti-gay Alliance Defense Fund, falls within that camp. But technology has made the right's argument far more compelling, as the Internet has brought pornography to a far bigger and more vulnerable audience than ever before. . . . [A]ccording to Trueman, much of the explicit material found on the Internet these days isn't protected speech but obscenity, which is prosecutable."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 16, 2010 (boomark / email).