Supreme Court Rejects Internet Obscenity Appeal
An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:
The Supreme Court turned back an appeal on Monday from a photographer who claimed a federal decency law violated her free-speech rights to post pictures of sadomasochistic sexual behavior on the Web.More here.
Justices affirmed a decision last year by a special three-judge federal panel upholding the 1996 law which makes it a crime to send obscenity over the Internet to children.
The court could have used the case to set online obscenity standards. The subject of children and indecency has gotten more attention recently.
posted by Fergie @ 3/20/2006 12:49:00 PM
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