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Re: Oh No! Nazis on the Nets
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"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.
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