Defining obscenity is a bear trap that dates back to around 1896 when the United States first adopted laws regulating obscenity.
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Japan's obscenity law is both severe and nebulous, harshly restricting the distribution, display, and sale of "obscene materials" but failing to define what, exactly, constitutes obscenity.
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For example, under President Barack Obama, the Justice Department was far less aggressive than George Bush's in trying obscenity cases—Obama shut down Bush's Obscenity Prosecution Task Force and did not initiate any significant obscenity cases of its own, despite an outcry from anti-porn activists.
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He told VICE over the phone that obscenity cases have been rare since Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder shut down a George W. Bush-era Obscenity Prosecution Task Force.
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In the US, the laws on pornography are regulated by the state, and some pornographers have been imprisoned for obscenity charges, while some others have been charged with obscenity violations.
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Brennan was not prepared to challenge that tradition, but he did offer what amounted to a new definition of obscenity, thus unintentionally initiating the almost total unravelling of obscenity jurisprudence.
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No one since James Joyce has spewed obscenity that effectively.
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As does God, whose name is seldom invoked without obscenity.
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It's not about porn, and so obscenity standards aren't relevant.
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Mr. Mortimer prevailed, and the court lifted the obscenity ruling.
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One referred, with an obscenity, to Mr. Condodemetraky's ethnic background.
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But this whole debate is bigger than pornography or obscenity.
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United States that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
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The company is behind seminal works like Rokudenashiko's What Is Obscenity?
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To others, it was a sexual obscenity worthy of legal action.
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The Supreme Court has held that violence alone is not obscenity.
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I see you and I see [audio cut for obscenity]. [Mr.
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So what exactly does it mean to be charged with obscenity?
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As a lawyer, he represented Lenny Bruce in an obscenity arrest.
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"This tax bill is a moral and economic obscenity," Sanders tweeted.
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The spectacular obscenity of Trump's comment is incomparable and deeply repulsive.
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A cult of a race and blood—that's an absolute obscenity.
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Mr. Petchesky said Mr. Spanfeller ordered him to leave using an obscenity.
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It's a moving story that cuts through the obscenity that surrounds it.
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I grab Myles Jackman, a prominent obscenity lawyer, for a quick chat.
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There are also some nebulous court rulings about "fighting words" and obscenity.
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There were several invalid protest ballots including one that carried an obscenity.
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Sex has long been subject to shifting definitions of "obscenity" and censorship.
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"Graham declined to comment on the president's reported obscenity," the Post reported.
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Battaglia shouted an obscenity at her on the phone, the documents showed.
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The ensuing obscenity trial brought the budding Beat scene some paradoxical fame.
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The obscenity of their disdain for everything around them is truly disgusting.
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In Italy, the film was the subject of a protracted obscenity trial.
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There were three charges: One is obscenity, which is a separate issue.
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That one thing was two words: an obscenity and the president's name.
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He cultivated a swaggering persona, accentuated by bursts of obscenity-laced anger.
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The vilest form of obscenity these days is in our nation's leadership.
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It's a tougher question whether "killing videos" could be additionally penalized as obscenity.
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This is because the term "obscenity" generally applies to depictions of sexual acts.
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Google told BuzzFeed News that it is simply complying with India's obscenity laws.
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Trueman is lobbying Sessions directly to bring obscenity prosecution to the federal level.
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He insisted he'd done nothing wrong in the obscenity-laced (and NSFW) rants.
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Actually, it was more than one audible obscenity, but we — like Kyrgios — digress.
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"They are themselves an obscenity." editing by Katharine Houreld; editing by Ralph Boulton
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Like obscenity, they resist definition—you just know one when you see one.
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Trump isn't even the first to wriggle out from under charges of obscenity.
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As a result, Berman was arrested on obscenity charges, tried, and found guilty.
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The British authorities shut the magazine down after two years, citing obscenity laws.
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Well, they aren't dirty per se, beyond the general obscenity of death itself.
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One fan, in particular, appeared to have screamed a racial obscenity at him.
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Obscenity and kindergarten-style jokes are strictly banned; sophisticated wit is strongly encouraged.
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Ms. Peet, a 46-year-old mother of three, replied with an obscenity.
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These people are not only hypocrites; they are au pairs to his obscenity.
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Call it Auteur Theory 2.0, with Montecristo cigars and streams of colorful obscenity.
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The story exploded on Twitter before Mr. Kerry issued an obscenity-laced denial.
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One is that it was hard to prosecute books for obscenity in France.
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He also criticizes "obscenity" and "disaster" of the viewpoints associated with the show.
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Bruce was found guilty of obscenity by Criminal Trial Court of New York City.
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Offenses ranged from racket abuse to audible obscenity to coaching infractions and unsportsmanlike conduct.
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When you mention obscene, I use the term "obscenity" in context with the jungle.
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According to obscenity lawyer Myles Jackman, fraternization, mechanophilia and property laws make it illegal.
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One customer transcribed an obscenity-heavy exchange he had with a Hero Tees representative.
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It courted scandal — and obscenity charges — with its depictions of Jewish culture and homosexuality.
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Grindhouse made space for boundary-pushing representations of obscenity, sex and violence on screen.
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As Roth said many times himself, obscenity was not a new thing in 1969.
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The obscenity is absurd, each hook sincere, and every bang well worth the buck.
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Obscenity and kindergarten-style jokes are strictly banned, while sophisticated wit is strongly encouraged.
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The book gradually gained wide notice, while often coming under attack for alleged obscenity.
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Mr. Kasowitz responded with four obscenity-laced emails in 33 minutes, according to ProPublica.
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An unidentified person yelled an obscenity at the president before he entered the meeting.
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The Court also defined what it means by obscenity in 1973 in Miller v. California.
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However, distributing uncensored images of real genitalia is a crime under the country's obscenity laws.
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He was fired after just 10 days on the job after an obscenity-laced interview.
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Clinton's candidacy is a matter of genuine historic import, and Trump is a walking obscenity.
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The verdict coincides with the English-language release of Igarashi's graphic memoir, What Is Obscenity?
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Following his obscenity-laced interview, he was fired after just 10 days on the job.
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Selling a computer without obscenity blockers is like selling a car without seatbelts, he said.
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But I typed it out just to feel the tingle of Ms. Griffith's confident obscenity.
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He was summarily convicted of obscenity and served three years supervised probation and community service.
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Now, Rokudenashiko is telling her story in a new manga memoir titled What is Obscenity?
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There, too, the actor delivered an even longer obscenity-laced rant directed at the president.
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Roth's lawyer placed his bets on one argument: that the federal obscenity statute was unconstitutional.
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The disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner cried as he pleaded guilty to felony obscenity charges.
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A century ago, obscenity laws and community standards provided ample reason to justify government censorship.
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Bruce's death after followed multiple career-destroying obscenity arrests for his boundary-breaking live shows.
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Much of what he said cannot be quoted because of its heavy reliance on obscenity.
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It's Trump's foul actions and ideas, not his swearing, that make him a walking obscenity.
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If appointed, would Sessions consider bringing back obscenity prosecutions and cracking down on the porn industry?
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The Family Research Council calls it "a plague" and urges for stricter enforcement of obscenity laws.
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There are savage feuds, a famous prosecution for obscenity, and myriad liaisons, including one with Fellini.
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Note to teachers and students: The related article includes an obscenity reportedly used by President Trump.
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"I played obscenity," she told me in an interview in April, avoiding a four-letter word.
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Contrary to what, Googling around, you might assume, obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
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Many regard public dollar directed to a physical barrier, in any form, as a moral obscenity.
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The comedian Patton Oswalt congratulated Ms. Pelosi for "inventing" an obscenity without using a certain finger.
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The year after, Hefner was arrested on obscenity charges following a nude pictorial of actress Jayne Mansfield.
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But where the line between personal care and obscenity falls, exactly, is entirely up to individual administrators.
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Tolo was attacked for "promoting obscenity, irreligiousness, foreign culture and nudity," the Taliban said in a statement.
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Drawing clear lines and definitions around obscenity, pornographic content, and art has always been a complicated business.
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The legal definition of obscenity has changed since Comstock's era, but the arguments against pornography have not.
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Nonetheless, 230 was enacted, though the Senate obscenity language was later struck down by the Supreme Court.
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Despite Japan's thriving pornographic industry, the country has tough obscenity laws that prohibit public displays of genitalia.
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The second was gibberish: the words "FrankZappa" followed by a random string of numbers and an obscenity.
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And Gawker, for all its faults, all of its obscenity, and all of its mistakes, did good.
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While mainstream movies took off right away, obscenity laws and social stigmas limited porn production and distribution.
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Elyssa Goodman: What has putting together this piece shown you about the lines between pornography and obscenity?
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Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center, which showed Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs, and its director were even charged with obscenity.
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"When is this show going to begin?" someone near me grumbled, adding a well-chosen obscenity for emphasis.
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Jeff Sessions, Trump's attorney general appointee, has already sworn to "vigorously prosecute" obscenity laws which target adult pornography.
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You can name your child anything, apparently, as long as it doesn't contain a number, symbol or obscenity.
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For her to get away with that would be more than a farce; it would be an obscenity.
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That shouldn't be the case for YouTube — a video community monitored for hate, violence, abuse, obscenity, and more.
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We can already see the battle over the freedom of speech and obscenity is happening on many fronts.
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More important, it is the most prudent place to be to stave off the obscenity of nuclear war.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused today [March 21] to modify or discard its nine-year-old obscenity yardstick.
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An exorbitantly priced, inefficient healthcare delivery system that kills more than 28,000 Americans each year is an obscenity.
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This move attracted the ire of India's conservative establishment, which motivated authorities to charge the artist with obscenity.
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As obscenity bans fell and Mr. Hefner's star began to rise, the coverage of his journey was mixed.
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"I think he's probably less of a [expletive] than I am," he answered, using a very English obscenity.
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It can stop the obscenity that America sends more weapons into the world than does any other country.
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He added that on the day of the stabbings, he had issued an "obscenity-laced invitation" to fight.
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"Every single [obscenity trial I've studied] is as much about penises as it is about vaginas," she says.
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And when the cast is finally charged with obscenity, Asch refuses to appear in court, sending a letter instead.
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In 21800, undercover police secretly recorded Bruce performing at a New York club and arrested him on obscenity charges.
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Koyama Press reached a new height of attention and impact in 2016 with the release of What Is Obscenity?
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When those views are challenged, resisting the status quo becomes a form of obscenity that must be shut down.
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Jonathan Zittrain: As part of a definition of obscenity, the famous Miller test, which was not a beeroriented test.
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The state funded an Obscenity and Pornography Complaints Ombudsman, dubbed the "Porn Czar," for two years beginning in 85033.
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So it described France as the "capital of prostitution and obscenity," and chose a rock concert as one target.
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Under George H.W. Bush, Trueman was also the chief of the Department of Justice's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.
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In the case of Scunthorpe, the filter registered the word "cunt" and thought the town name was an obscenity.
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The obscenity and violence probably limit how far into the rest of the Marvel Universe "Deadpool" can actually expand.
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The porn scene doesn't fully emerge until a few episodes in, in the aftermath of obscenity challenges in court.
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Lunging at her, he shouted an obscenity and bludgeoned her about the head with his ax, the prosecutor said.
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I said no and kept on my way, quickly, and the second man yelled a threatening obscenity after me.
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One of the most important trials in the history of obscenity and censorship in the US was Memoirs v.
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"I'm a class-A heel," Mr. Corgan admitted, using wrestling-speak for villain and adding an obscenity for emphasis.
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The obscenity yelled by her assailant included the word "Tory," the abbreviated name for the Conservatives, Ms. Hales said.
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Like the other post-Sputnik novels, "Lolita" had its own pre-publication tumult, in this case an obscenity scandal.
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In 2008, Paul F. Little was sentenced to 46 months in jail after being convicted on multiple obscenity charges.
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After buying some of the illicit materials, he went to the police and got the shopkeeper arrested for obscenity.
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The strategy was to rewrite the definition of obscenity using concepts that the courts had already committed themselves to.
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Video pornography in Japan has often used digital mosaics to obscure genitalia in sex scenes to avoid obscenity charges.
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By 2140, Bruce had already been arrested multiple times on obscenity charges and barred from entering the United Kingdom.
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Kuzu later tweeted again, saying he had not meant an obscenity, and had meant to say "Oh come on, foreigner".
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Much like obscenity, what's in the public interest is never quite defined — but we know it when we see it.
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The FCC has broad authority to regulate what can and cannot be broadcast based on legal precedent regarding obscenity laws.
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The exceptions to free speech are narrowly defined, such as obscenity, some forms of incitement to violence, and child pornography.
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Today's indictment adds additional child pornography to last month's charges, as well as new counts of sex trafficking and obscenity.
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Providing a hard-stop definition of "local Twitter" is tricky; much like obscenity, you know it when you see it.
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Correction: The headline for this piece originally misstated that it had been 20 years since the obscenity trial, not 25.
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Her picture had been reported by conservatives who believed that images of women, heads uncovered and shoulders bare, constituted obscenity.
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" Obscenity lawyer Myles Jackman confirms that "people have been doing it since time immemorial, because it's basically a kinky thrill.
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At the time of the reporting, Kozinski recused himself from presiding over a high-profile obscenity case in Los Angeles.
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Collins responded by making the obscene gesture and appeared to yell an obscenity as he reacted to the booing crowd.
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Just one year before the first 2G1C reaction video was uploaded, Croce was arrested in Orlando on charges of obscenity.
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At a community radio station in Kentucky, a host accidentally played an Alanis Morissette song with an obscenity in it.
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The paper's businesslike tone stood in contrast to Playboy's obscenity, which was repelling advertisers even as it was attracting readers.
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"Last Tango" received an X rating in the U.S., and was the subject of a protracted obscenity trial in Italy.
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"It is a moral obscenity that in our country tonight, 500,000 people will sleep out on the streets," he said.
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A number of agencies are participating in the law enforcement push, including the Justice Department's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.
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The following April, Lomanto was indicted on charges of fourth-degree public communication of obscenity and obstructing a criminal investigation.
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The act of breastfeeding is not considered a crime of indecent exposure, open lewdness, obscenity, or nuisance under state law.
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But Islamic State – for whom Paris is also 'the capital of prostitution and obscenity' – has no use for sex work.
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There were two more major tests of obscenity laws: William Burroughs's "Naked Lunch," published in Paris by Olympia and in New York by Grove, and "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure," otherwise known as "Fanny Hill," which is the first book known to have been convicted of obscenity in the United States, back in 1821.
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The driver told police the couple got into an obscenity-filled argument soon after getting into his car minutes after midnight.
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The obscenity charges were eventually dropped in both cases, although only after about a year of legal wrangling and extreme stress.
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The graphic memoir functioned not only as an art book, but also as a protest piece against Japan's outdated obscenity laws.
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"First of all, they're going to have to bleep the whole thing," Louis-Dreyfus says, referencing the obscenity of the quote.
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Yiannopoulos, one of the alt-right's most visible forces of obscenity, has been the clearest sign that this alliance has limits.
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In 1961, Bruce was charged with violating California's obscenity law at San Francisco's Jazz Workshop (he said the word c***sucker).
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Evangelicals, aided by the rapidly growing Ku Klux Klan, whipped up hysteria about obscenity through their sermons, publications, and radio shows.
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Shrieking, hysterical left-wing protesters by the dozen were carted out of the hearings, yelling all sorts of insanity and obscenity.
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It came under fire for its frank depictions of Jewish culture and homosexuality, and cast members were arrested on obscenity charges.
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When James Joyce's "Ulysses" was first published in 1922, it was banned for obscenity and the U.S. Postal Service burned copies.
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Producers who shot bondage films tended to steer clear of explicit penetration altogether because they were afraid of inciting obscenity charges.
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"There is no prohibition on how they use your personal data," Myles Jackman, an obscenity lawyer and activist, told VICE News.
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For violating her country's strict obscenity laws — which don't seem to apply to depictions of penises — Igarishi was fined ¥400,000 (~$3,660).
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The Charles County state's attorney reviewed the case and charged her as a juvenile under the child pornography and obscenity statutes.
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But like obscenity, tanking can be hard to define, even if most people believe they know it when they see it.
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He retired in 2017 and was noticed, if at all, for his painstaking lawn care, and for occasional outbursts of obscenity.
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A year later, buoyed by donations to his cause, Comstock arrived in Washington to lobby politicians to strengthen federal obscenity laws.
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In the study, people reported being more influenced by a speech that included mild obscenity than the same one without it.
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They found their opportunity in the Communications Decency Act, a 230 law intended to regulate pornographic material, obscenity, and indecency online.
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Sessions — who said he wasn't fully aware that the Obama administration had shut down the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force in the first place — noted that obscenity prosecutions have long been a part of the work of the Department of Justice, and that he'd happily consider bringing the task force back, were he to head up the department.
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But Vogel and Taichman are more interested in the human story behind Asch's play rather than the spectacle of its obscenity trial.
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And in spite of some obvious ideological differences, it seems Sessions already has the support of many of those obscenity-loving shitposters.
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In his nominee for Attorney General's confirmation hearing, Jeffrey Sessions noted that his Department of Justice would consider bringing back obscenity prosecutions.
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Look no further then the obscenity featured on this morning's cover of the New York Daily News telling Ted to 'Drop Dead!
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It's just fact: To the courts, porn has always been a close call between being classified as protected speech or unprotected obscenity.
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Under normal circumstances, Woodhull would certainly be worth talking about, given the faith healing and the brokerage firm and the obscenity trial.
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Drugs, booze, obscenity, violence and black humor fuel Lisa McInerney's audacious first novel, winner of the 2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.
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But that didn't stop Bruce from being convicted in 1964 for violating New York's obscenity laws and being sentenced to hard labor.
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From what I've seen reported in Indian media, the larger issue with this is not obscenity but rather the objectification of women.
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After a fan screamed a racial obscenity at him at a Premier League match in December, he made a pointed Instagram post.
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He has been fined on obscenity charges in Japan, and while some critics consider him a maestro, others deem his work pornography.
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He blew his quota by the ninth game and with frustration spilling over, he earned a code violation for an audible obscenity.
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In a tweet, Sanders called the bill a "moral and economic obscenity" and urged his colleagues not to vote to pass it.
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The law always has struggled with regulating speech content — just look at legal efforts against hate speech, obscenity, virtual child pornography, etc.
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The bureau even launched a separate investigation into "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen, looking into whether the unintelligible lyrics violated obscenity laws.
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I've always found the patriarchy of the church to be a moral obscenity, one that too easily gets a pass in our society.
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Twelve platforms were punished and ordered to make changes after offering illicit content that "promotes obscenity, violence, abets crime and damages social morality".
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I didn't reply to a single email, even when I wanted to write down every obscenity I was screaming into the computer screen.
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We'd like to think this is the pillow Sean pours every wretched obscenity into, soaking his boss's ballsack of a face with bile.
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Furthermore, sending sexual images to minors is against the law, and some states have begun prosecuting kids for child pornography or felony obscenity.
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Ricardo Rosselló said Sunday evening that he will not resign in the face of public furor over an obscenity-laced leaked online chat.
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"Ordinary men, capable of … extraordinary things," he says, the actor Michael Cristofer drawing out the words into a blend of obscenity and admiration.
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Clinton's "obscenity-laced tirades" on the first page of his introduction, and the opening sentence from the first lady includes a hearty expletive.
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Asked to rate the evening, three fights in, he said, "I give a big fat F!" adding an obscenity to underscore the point.
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After a fan screamed a racial obscenity at him at a Premier League match in December, Sterling responded with a pointed Instagram post.
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There are exceptions for libel, incitement, obscenity and fighting words, and one for "true threats," which is at issue in Mr. Knox's case.
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She and Man Ray were kicked off one dance floor for "obscenity," Van Haaften writes, which is one definition of pretty good dancing.
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Watching him be persecuted by the U.S. government [for obscenity charges] as I was learning about the U.S. Constitution — [he] became my hero.
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The most notorious of them had been banned in the United States and abroad and rejected by American publishers fearing prosecution for obscenity.
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In their preface, the translators say that the obscenity is intended to give readers a "frisson" such as the original might have elicited.
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After that line, the play instantly becomes an obscenity oratorio in which vicious, muscular dialogue, appropriate to its setting, turns into gorgeous music.
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The government repeatedly prosecuted Grosz, his publisher, and the galleries that exhibited his work for insulting the army, for obscenity, and for blasphemy.
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When fan-fic readers and writers make moral arguments about disallowing depictions of sex acts, they're talking about obscenity and all its legal precedents.
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That made Titicut Follies the first film in US history to be banned from distribution for reasons unrelated to obscenity, immorality, or national security.
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President Bill Clinton introduced the Communications Decency Act — sometimes referred to as the "Great Internet Sex Panic of 1995" — to regulate obscenity in cyberspace.
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Why it matters: Today's indictment adds additional child pornography incidents to last month's charges, as well as new counts of sex trafficking and obscenity.
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At the same time, scandals such as Oscar Wilde's trial or Radclyffe Hall's obscenity trial about her book The Well of Loneliness became prominent.
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The obscenity of it all is that the show had all the tools it needed to create a truly emotional moment at its disposal.
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SATURDAY • A trial is due to begin for an Egyptian actress accused of public obscenity for wearing a revealing dress at a film festival.
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The fines included five charges of unsportsmanlike conduct totalling $85,000, $20,000 for verbal abuse, $5,000 for audible obscenity and $3,000 for leaving the court.
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It may be a stepping-off point to urging the Department of Justice to enforce obscenity law, but even if it's not, it's helpful.
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The city's Contemporary Arts Center and its director faced obscenity charges; they were acquitted in a trial viewed as a victory for free speech.
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They're decapitated […] I responded to the debacle in Iraq as I did during the Vietnam War, by trying to express the obscenity of war.
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Mr. Gibson became a Hollywood pariah in 2006 when he was charged with drunken driving and went on an obscenity-laced, anti-Semitic tirade.
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In an apparent act of protest, one elector drew a cross on the ballot with check marks, and another wrote an obscenity on it.
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In these smaller, more immediate works, frenetic and scrawling marks replicate the violence of the battlefield and what she called the "obscenity" of war.
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This morning, Tokyo's controversial "vagina artist," Megumi Igarashi, was convicted on obscenity charges after a high-profile trial and fined 400,000 yen (roughly $3,600).
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Lesbianism buried the play in scandal, ending its short-lived run on Broadway with obscenity charges for the play's 12-member cast and its producer.
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Whitney Strub is the author of Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right and Obscenity Rules: Roth v.
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LEADERSHIP IS A quality that is hard to define, but as a Supreme Court justice said of obscenity, you know it when you see it.
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That work decides whether involving a piece of content breaks the company's policies around fake news, hate speech, obscenity, and other inadmissible forms of content.
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The judge concluded his opinion with an unusual flourish referring to a quote from Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart about pornography in an obscenity case.
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The upcoming Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, in addition to making Microsoft move to reduce obscenity on its platform, has hit erotica authors on Amazon.
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In the film, NYU historian Joe Jeffreys describes Wood as "an obscenity wrapped in a perversity," linking her to Divine, Leigh Bowery, and GG Allin.
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The big global ones such as Facebook and Twitter aspire to be politically neutral, but do not permit "hate speech" or obscenity on their platforms.
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When Putnam's published "Fanny Hill," in 1963, New York City officials suppressed the book for obscenity (the publisher was eventually vindicated by the Supreme Court).
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The Senate had actually gone so far as to approve language declaring that online operators were subject to the same obscenity regulations as television broadcasters.
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He occupied the front lines of a free-speech battle when he published Ginsberg's poem "Howl" in 1956, and faced obscenity charges as a result.
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" Algren was a writer "bred in a literary generation that identifies reticence and suppression, and begins to attach a ritual value to obscenity and fetor.
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"To ask why the Jews have been killed," he said in an interview with The Times, "is a question that shows immediately its own obscenity."
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I got my answer three days later when he took the stage at the Tony Awards and offered a succinct obscenity aimed at the president.
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Is that particular violation adequately charged by intention to cause alarm and distress in Section 66, or by obscenity and disgust in outraging public decency?
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The American soccer star had used an obscenity to dismiss the idea of a White House visit if her team won the Women's World Cup.
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In 2000, after a change in British obscenity law, Penguin Books published a paperback edition, knowing that it was likely to become a test case.
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The people defending Bruce from accusations of obscenity and provocation in the 1960s would now be likely to attack his right to use racial epithets.
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An emblematic piece is Nauman's lithograph from 1973 that simply asks us, in reverse lettering, to "Pay Attention," and follows that address with an obscenity.
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Among other tidbits from the sober life, John reveals that he is Eminem's A.A. sponsor and reveals the obscenity Eminem uses by way of greeting.
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And in Japan, the high-spirited manga artist Rokudenashiko challenges lopsided obscenity laws by fashioning art using molds and 3-D scans of her genitals.
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Paula Vogel makes her Broadway debut with this lyrical history lesson centered on "God of Vengeance," a 1923 Yiddish drama that sparked an obscenity trial.
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He also delivered a rare near-obscenity (he often relies on the phrase "dagnab") when discussing his efforts to protect the right to an abortion.
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In taking their oaths last month, they substituted a word for China that is widely seen as derogatory, and Ms. Yau added a common obscenity.
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These legal setbacks, combined with the U.S. Department of Justice's persistent failure to prosecute federal obscenity laws, have given pornographers a stranglehold on the Internet.
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Rather like the judge's famous dictum about obscenity, a well-run company may be hard to define but we can recognise it when we see it.
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Given that it was Florida, he represented mostly porn clients, as the Justice Department under the new George W. Bush administration had ramped up obscenity prosecutions.
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In 2015, Dufresne pleaded guilty to a lesser obscenity charge in St. Charles Parish after admitting to having sex with the underage student, the spokesman says.
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After pleading guilty to the obscenity charge in 2015, a judge sentenced Dufresne to three years probation and 90 days at an inpatient mental health facility.
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China said at the time that Liu's award was an "obscenity" that should not have gone to a man it called a criminal and a subversive.
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As this memoir buzzes along, though, what becomes clear is that the real obscenity of Mr. Offutt's childhood had little to do with his father's profession.
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In April last year, CAC said it would punish Sina after users complained about the site for spreading rumours, terror, obscenity and pornography on it site.
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" His rap group was at the center of an obscenity trial in the 1990s over the lyrics on their "As Nasty as They Wanna Be'' album.
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But, when she sent a friend to pick up the cake, the word "Cum" was edited out -- an apparent violation of the grocery store's obscenity policy!!!!
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An analysis from the Anti-Defamation League said the video appears to have been first posted from Reddit user "Han-------Solo," whose name contains an obscenity.
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However, virtual child porn can still be prosecuted under obscenity law, according to Patrick A. Trueman, the CEO of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE).
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Weiner's Twitter thread is a who's who of people with birth names that throw algorithmic obscenity filters through a loop, but the problem is hardly new.
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But it is our tragic circumstance that the man in question is a moral obscenity, a mental flyspeck, a fraud, and president of the United States.
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Federal obscenity laws are specifically about pornography; expanding them to include sex toys would take an act of Congress—which, while possible, doesn't seem incredibly likely.
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In 1994, while living in the conservative Florida town of Largo, underground comic artist Mike Diana became the first person convicted of artistic obscenity in America.
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As time went on, though, Trump began to pay lip service to old Republican anti-porn stances, signing a pledge to prioritize obscenity prosecutions in August.
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The combination of the obscenity and the sneeringly rebellious vibe of the lyrics hurt Mr. McDonald career-wise, but of that song, he has no regrets.
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As he battled the aforementioned obscenity charge and an onslaught from politicians who called for 2 Live Crew to be banned, the album went double platinum.
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But a clearly perturbed Kyrgios was not happy with that explanation and following a verbal exchange was given a code violation warning for an audible obscenity.
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That changed in the first half of the nineteenth century, when a religious revival led states to pass new laws, including the first law against obscenity.
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Rembar saw that the path to changing obscenity law was not to get Roth overruled but to get Brennan's opinion restated as an anti-censorship decision.
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Jacobellis retained obscenity as a category of unprotected speech, but it made it virtually impossible to censor serious books for their language or their subject matter.
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Paula Vogel makes her Broadway debut with this lyrical theater history lesson centered on "God of Vengeance," a 1923 Yiddish drama that sparked an obscenity trial.
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Early in his tenure, he had intervened at a movie premiere party to defend Mr. Dauman from an obscenity-laced fusillade by the producer Harvey Weinstein.
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As the lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital began taking effect, he twice used an obscenity to say he could taste it and that it was burning.
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As the 22000s bled into the 21996s, Flynt was repeatedly sued for obscenity, shot and paralyzed by Franklin, and increasingly erratic thanks to his undiagnosed bipolar disorder.
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He was booked with Attempted Promotion of Obscenity to minor, which is a felony, Attempted Sexual Assault of Ten Year Age Difference, a misdemeanor, and Criminal Attempt.
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But when I got busted in Los Angeles for obscenity, pretty much everybody backed off bukkake, and I kind of owned that category for a long time.
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The First Amendment guarantees freedom from government intervention into speech except in cases that create a small number of special problems, among them incitement, obscenity, and defamation.
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But he also retains the frothing enthusiasm of the newborn fanboy, and he tears into convulsive, obscenity-peppered rants that emulate the riffs of his favorite artists.
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Simply consider "I know it when I see it", the statement made in 1964 by Potter Stewart, a Supreme Court justice, when ruling on an obscenity case.
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Anderson received a code violation for an audible obscenity but it was hard to blame him for losing his cool as Djokovic continued to turn the screw.
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And yet, I have absolutely no idea what makes the three pieces for which I've been indicted, crimes of obscenity, why other works haven't been deemed obscene.
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Weiler is a co-sponsor of a new bill that aims to get rid of the "obscenity and pornography complaints ombudsman," also known as the porn czar.
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Trump's choice for attorney general, Jeff Sessions, wants to revive the defunct Obscenity Prosecution Task Force and attack adult pornographers with Orwellian verve and McCarthy-era vigor.
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The 22-year-old received a $3,000 fine for 'audible obscenity' and a $2,500 fine for 'abuse of rackets and equipments', said a U.S. Tennis Association statement.
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"It's not that these cases can't be won," Trueman said, pointing to USA vs Ira Isaacson, the sole obscenity trial to end in a conviction under Holder.
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President Trump pledged to clamp down on obscenity during his campaign, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions publicly declared he would be willing to prosecute porn last year.
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Idaho's vote was smoother, with a vote of 66-0 approving legislation that protects breastfeeding mothers from indecent exposure and obscenity laws, according to the Idaho Statesman.
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First seen nervously spray-painting an obscenity onto an enemy's garage — a surprisingly belligerent act, given the predictable consequences — he doesn't entirely lack courage or self-esteem.
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And at the same time, it threw a big cloud over their obscenity laws, so they decided to rewrite it all and made their new pornography laws.
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Marek himself, after what police called a "complex" investigation, was charged with corrupting morals, under the rarely used Obscenity Act, for allowing the video to be posted.
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Audience members cheered when Mr. Marmo, onstage as Mr. Bruce, hollered about free speech and recounted the comic's frequent arrests on obscenity charges in the early 1959s.
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I kind of felt the same way that Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously felt about the concept of obscenity––I knew it when I saw it.
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Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, was spotted laughing alongside Mr. Cheney, who once uttered an obscenity at Mr. Leahy on the floor of the Senate.
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This immunity from typical obscenity laws was not always the case: In 1996, Congress passed the Child Pornography Prevention Act, which branded virtual child pornography as criminal.
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In one particularly explosive episode, he left a threatening, obscenity-laced voice mail message for a Democratic lawmaker who, Mr. LePage said, had called him a racist.
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He coached potential bribe takers on how to impress a sheikh, suggested ways to make deals and laced his converstions with obscenity and authentic Bronx street talk.
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After a change in British obscenity law in 1959, Penguin Books decided to publish a paperback edition, knowing that it was likely to become a test case.
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He hits the road, packing nightclubs and juke joints across the South, and releases a series of albums whose salacious covers hint at the exuberant obscenity inside.
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But pumping up tax breaks for the top 1 percent by taking health insurance away from low-income and middle-class Americans would be a moral obscenity.
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But the Haggler has never encountered a business that delights in calling its customers wrong, and then insults those customers in obscenity-filled emails and YouTube videos.
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It does not protect people wishing to express themselves through obscenity, child pornography, threats of violence, someone else's intellectual property, lies in an advertisement, and so on.
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But those prosecutions were all on obscenity charges and mostly involved foreign works, such as Beat novels by William S. Burroughs or erotic works by Guillaume Apollinaire.
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TORONTO — Rob Ford, the pugnacious, populist former mayor of Toronto whose career crashed in a drug-driven, obscenity-laced debacle, died Tuesday after fighting cancer, his family said.
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Nine years of immersive research led to "Thy Neighbour's Wife", in which he wove histories of pornography and obscenity law with lurid tales of sex gurus and swingers.
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In July he was appointed as White House communications director but was fired a week later after an obscenity-laced telephone interview with a New Yorker magazine writer.
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According to TMZ, the rapper had reportedly been warned about using profanity, but in video apparently taken during the concert, he can clearly be heard shouting the obscenity.
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Classical dance was banned under the regime of military dictator Zia ul Haq, who pushed for greater "Islamisation" of Pakistan in the 1980s, as being associated with obscenity.
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Long before the Internet made nudity ubiquitous, Hefner faced obscenity charges in 219 for publishing and circulating photos of disrobed celebrities and aspiring stars but he was acquitted.
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I had never met him, but many of my friends had been the recipients of his late-night ejaculations of rage, his obscenity-laced emails and Twitter blasts.
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Last year, for example, four trekkers were charged with obscenity after taking nude photographs on the country's highest peak, Mount Kinabalu, which is considered sacred by some Malaysians.
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MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to expel American troops from the Philippines, accused the C.I.A. of plotting to kill him and insulted President Obama with an obscenity.
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Richard Neville, who challenged societal taboos and obscenity standards as a founder of the satirical countercultural magazine Oz in the 21979s, died on Sunday in Byron Bay, Australia.
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While being sworn in, they made a statement of defiance against Chinese rule, using a crude obscenity and a term that many consider a slur against Chinese people.
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Related: This Cartoonist was the First American Criminally Convicted of Obscenity This Brutal Comic is Studio Ghibli Meets 'Mad Max' Is Collaboration the Most Important Key to Comics?
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Inarguably the most famous of the animal vibrator kingdom, the Rabbit hails from Japan, where obscenity laws effectively bar the distribution of products that might sexually arouse consumers.
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Kyrgios was asked if the fine — imposed for unsportsmanlike conduct, verbal abuse and audible obscenity after arguing with the chair umpire and smashing two rackets — had affected him.
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One of the Democrats, Representative César J. Blanco, said that Mr. Rinaldi told him and others, "We are going to have them deported," and then used an obscenity.
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He helped defend Harry Reems, the star of the pornographic film Deep Throat, on First Amendment grounds when federal prosecutors brought obscenity charges against him in the 1970s.
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True threats, like obscenity, child pornography and fighting words, are one of the very few categories of speech not protected by the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
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"Lying worm," Mr. Dietl wrote in the obscenity-laced exchange last week after the Reform Party endorsed Sal Albanese, a Democrat and former City Council member, for mayor.
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But the writers of superior fiction were writing more freely, and their publishers were profiting from the results, because people like Rosset were putting pressure on obscenity laws.
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An exploration of "God of Vengeance," a Yiddish drama that became the subject of an obscenity trial, the play speaks feelingly to ideas of culture, censorship and freedom.
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Describing the daring editor bankrupted by obscenity charges for serializing "Ulysses," she reflects, "I have lost track of whether I am writing about Margaret Anderson or about myself."
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OpticsFast customers report dreadful and unnerving experiences with the company: obscenity-filled rants from service reps, cascades of hectoring emails, repair jobs gone terribly wrong, threats of litigation.
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Although it does not explicitly outlaw homosexuality, some fear the criminalization of extra-marital sex and new obscenity laws could form a legal basis for persecuting gay people.
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This education demands that our elected leaders in Washington address this crisis by again passing legislation to protect children from Internet pornography and vigorously enforcing federal obscenity laws.
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Ms. Rapinoe said she stood by her remarks, apologizing only for using a obscenity to express them, and urged her teammates to join her in any potential boycott.
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Convicted of "wounding religious feelings" and obscenity, for posting a crude cartoon showing Lee Kuan Yew doing something unspeakable to Margaret Thatcher, Mr Yee was imprisoned for four weeks.
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The appeal of authoritarianism, and the reassertion of white male privilege, may be seductive enough to unite the agents of obscenity with those who've dedicated themselves to fighting it.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - CoCo Vandeweghe was fined $10,000 for shouting an obscenity at her opponent in her first round match at the Australian Open on Monday, organizers revealed on Friday.
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MELBOURNE, (Reuters) - Maria Sharapova once used a pithy obscenity to describe them, Nick Kyrgios says he hates them, but every professional tennis player, when requested, has to do them.
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The current guidance from US Supreme Court on the matter of obscenity is "I know it when I see it," a standard that relies more on intuition than specificity.
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Schwartz said this isn't like a normal submission process — it's more about screening for things like plagiarism and obscenity, and making sure posts are on-topic for the site.
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Theater producer Joseph Papp, for example, made headlines in 1990 when he spurned a $50,000 NEA grant in protest of anti-obscenity conditions then attached to Endowment-funded projects.
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Hackett told the Hollywood Reporter last week that Price said to her repeatedly that she would "love my dick," and that he yelled an obscenity in her ear afterward.
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California ruling made the definition of obscenity reliant upon local "community standards," the Golden Age of Porn was curtailed, but the advent of home video was not far behind.
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She was accused of hurling an obscenity at Museveni by calling him a "pair of buttocks" and posting other messages that had violated his peace and right of privacy.
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And legal experts agree it'd be hard for the authorities to pursue obscenity cases, which have grown difficult to prosecute as porn has grown more accepted by juries nationwide.
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In April 1964, he was arrested at the Cafe au Go Go in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, then convicted on obscenity charges and sentenced to four months in jail.
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The so-called Comstock obscenity laws, passed from 1873 through the early 13s, made it illegal to give, sell, mail or transport any item used for contraception or abortion.
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Hackett told the Hollywood Reporter last week that Price said to her repeatedly that she would "love my dick," and that he yelled an obscenity in her ear afterwards.
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Mr. Smith is best known for the films "Flaming Creatures" (1962-63) and "Normal Love" (1963-65), which gained immediate notoriety because of the obscenity charges leveled against them.
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In the years before joining Mr. Trump's campaign, Mr. Bannon was known as a hard-charging, obscenity-hurling manager at Breitbart News, where he became executive chairman in 2012.
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Led by Anthony Comstock, the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice became a media sensation by targeting feminists in a culture war over obscenity and birth control.
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In 21976, Mr. Mekas was arrested on obscenity charges for screening Mr. Smith's "Flaming Creatures," a voyeuristic and surrealistic film featuring hermaphrodites, cross-dressers and other gender-ambiguous characters.
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This particular thing, everybody wanted to argue about regulating obscenity, which is obviously a tar pit and one that you should stay out of, but one does regulate speech.
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No one doubts that freedom of speech is a nationwide right, for example, but what counts as "obscenity," and therefore lacks constitutional coverage, is defined in part by community standards.
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A famous line: Why it matters: Can you imagine a world in which Louis C.K., Eddie Murphy or Margaret Cho would be arrested on obscenity charges for their stand-up?
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Back in early January, during the confirmation hearings for now-embattled Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Senator Orrin Hatch posed a question about obscenity, an issue that has always obsessed him.
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The court cleared Igarashi of charges of obscenity over her bright yellow kayak, but fined her 400,000 yen ($3,670), for electronically providing data to allow people to print their own.
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At times, it can be refreshing and enlightening to see media and perspectives that don't labor under stultifying FCC obscenity codes, to hear voices we might not have otherwise heard.
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Avenatti said his demands, made in obscenity-laden communications recorded at prosecutors' behest after Nike approached them, were merely part of settlement negotiations and reflected his "zealous advocacy" for Franklin.
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In addition, the Department has a specialized unit in Washington — the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section — that helps train prosecutors and investigators on the best ways to address these crimes.
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The Sex Pistols — that obscenity-spewing British punk band behind the banned No. 1 single "God Save the Queen" — existed for a mere 26 months before self-destructing in 1978.
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Japanese artist, Megumi Igarashi, who made global headlines when she created a vagina-shaped kayak back in 2014 has been convicted in an obscenity trial that lasted almost two years.
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Fenton Bailey: In the trial after he'd died, the pictures were put on trial for obscenity, but they were safe because yes, they are obscene, but they have artistic merit.
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The note also said the investigation was being aided by the Department of Justice's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, as well as US attorney general offices in Arizona and California.
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Koon pled guilty in the Lorain County Court of Common Pleas to four counts each of rape, kidnapping, and pandering obscenity involving a minor, reports the Lorain County Chronicle-Telegram.
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Obscenity on this scale was not just frowned upon in polite society at the time, but highly illegal, so it's no surprise that the copper engravings lack an artist's signature.
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According to the Supreme Court, if something is prurient in nature, completely devoid of scientific, political, educational, or social value, and violates the local community standards, then it is obscenity.
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LONDON — Jeremy Hutchinson, a British barrister whose sometimes theatrical courtroom tactics and rhetorical panache secured victories that helped reshape society's attitudes toward obscenity, secrecy and sexual manners, died on Monday.
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At 11 or 12, while his parents were out, he found the key and discovered D. H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover," which for a time was widely banned for obscenity.
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"FCC staff reviews each complaint to determine whether it alleges information sufficient to suggest that a violation of the obscenity, profanity or indecency prohibition has occurred," the organization's website explains.
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Refusing to accept the posters as sly humor, the critics accused the marchers of obscenity and vulgarity — another familiar objection that raises its head whenever Pakistani women demand their rights.
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Originally sold to a private buyer in the U.S., the book used in the obscenity trial about D.H. Lawrence's novel was acquired by Bristol University after a fund-raising campaign.
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" The poem and the historic obscenity trial that followed turned Ginsberg into a culture hero and an apostate, treated in many quarters, as he later complained, like a "barbarian jerk.
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He became incensed after receiving a code violation for an audible obscenity when a lineswoman reported hearing him swear, and he accosted her in the back of the court afterward.
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Lillian's short career is dogged by poverty, single motherhood, an illegal abortion, and an obscenity trial; the cultural legacy of her remarkable, transgressive photographs is recognized only after her death.
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It's impossible to pinpoint exactly when The Discourse took off in earnest, but, as Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said about obscenity, you knew it when you saw it.
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Chewing gum and "foul language" were supposedly banned; I can now come clean about dropping obscenity bombs in a rebellious preadolescent fervor and sneaking in Bubble Yum on multiple occasions.
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Her inspiration, a 1906 Yiddish melodrama by Sholem Asch called "God of Vengeance," became notorious when it was shut down for obscenity after its English-language Broadway debut in 1923.
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I understand that, but where the conditions of possibility for that sort of obscenity finally lie is in a much broader... I don't even like touching this with a stick.
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The first category was a series of hate-filled pages that denigrated all major religions – including Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Judaism – with a disgusting obscenity in front of each religion's name.
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Indecent tells the true story of the controversy surrounding Sholem Asch's play God of Vengeance, which saw its cast members arrested for obscenity when it was performed on Broadway in 1923.
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Where once the catch was football's version of obscenity — we know it when we see it — it became a play to be dissected from all angles and the slowest possible speeds.
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It has become impossible to establish a standard (of so-called obscenity), and this case will shut down any opportunity I may have in the future, to create other similar work.
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"They deliberately let the triads beat up protesters to get revenge on us ... We're here to teach them a lesson," said one protester Kevin, shouting an obscenity outside a police station.
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See below for developments on that... Roiland calls as his animated persona Rick Sanchez, minus the belching, obscenity, and contempt for humanity that normally characterises Rick's unique brand of lovable misanthropy.
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About a century earlier, Bloom stashes away a "smutty photo" of a nun in "Ulysses," a tame book by today's standards that was itself banned at first in America for obscenity.
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Rosselló joined more than a dozen government officials who have resigned in the wake of an obscenity-laced chat in which they made fun of women, gay people and hurricane victims.
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Penguin Books was cleared of obscenity charges for publishing D. H. Lawrence's novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover," about a sexually frustrated woman's affair with the gamekeeper on her upper-class husband's estate.
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It's a little disorienting to hear a studio audience, a broadcast TV staple, laughing at punch lines that include a strong obscenity, or to catch a flash of Colt's bare backside.
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The lines between "commentary" and targeted aggression are murky, not least in the gaming community where, in the 4chan tradition, a degree of obscenity, insult, and mockery comes with the culture.
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Related: NSFW: Marilyn Minter and Betty Tompkins on Censorship, Art, and Obscenity 'From Here to Eternity' Drawings Kiss Censorship Goodbye Our 11 Favorite Zines from This Year's NY Art Book Fair
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The manga's cutesy, utterly non-pornographic style, like that of Igarishi's sculptures, gets her point across so beautifully — and in the process renders the charges of obscenity even more more absurd.
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Separately, Megan Rapinoe reaffirmed her pledge to skip any visit by the team to the White House after the World Cup, apologizing only for using an obscenity to express herself earlier.
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But this copy of "Lady Chatterley's Lover," by D.H. Lawrence, used in perhaps the most famous British obscenity trial of the past century, is now designated a cultural treasure in Britain.
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Brennan explained that courts had always carved out exceptions to the First Amendment protection of speech—for instance, libel—and that history showed obscenity to have been one of those exceptions.
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During a separate court appearance, Osborne pleaded guilty to four counts of complicity to rape, complicity to kidnapping and pandering obscenity involving a minor, a Loraine County Court official confirms to PEOPLE.
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Roth, who published the tawdry Violations of the Child Marilyn Monroe in 1962, lost a 1957 Supreme Court case that created modern obscenity doctrine, and his papers are both fascinating and detailed.
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Vientiane, Laos (CNN)Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is expressing regret after his obscenity-laden rant against President Barack Obama prompted the White House to cancel planned bilateral talks between the two leaders.
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He was particularly concerned about what all this obscenity might do to the minds of America's children, and went so far as to compile a "blue book" packed with X-rated screenshots.
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Of the three most prominent obscenity cases of the last decade, only one resulted in a successful conviction: Max Hardcore, whose work pushed the limits of acceptability even within the adult industry.
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Lampooning sexual mores, revealing racism and mocking priggishness, Oz incited fusty establishment elders in Australia and London and provoked what was, at the time, Britain's longest and possibly most colorful obscenity trial.
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It wasn't, not with the "Oz Guide to Taking LSD" or a special edition on "The Pornography of Violence" or, perhaps most notoriously, the May 1970 issue, which prompted the obscenity trial.
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In the wake of the obscenity trial that haunted the Robert Mapplethorpe show in the '90s, curators treated his brand of wholesome eroticism as if it was an advertisement for unprotected sex.
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The chief information officer replied to Mr. Donovan's telephone call with an obscenity, according to the lawsuit, and wanted to know why a lower-ranking employee was telling him what to do.
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Constitutional rights are not absolute — freedom of speech does not protect libel or obscenity or perjury — but knowing how to make careful exception is the core of the Supreme Court's judicial task.
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While members of Congress had been expelled for, say, acts of treason, or repeatedly failing to show up to sessions, throwing someone out for printing an obscenity would be an unprecedented move.
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Earlier this month, a court ruled that Igarishi was guilty of obscenity for sharing her vagina data, but not for exhibiting the physical objects, since they qualify as art under Japanese law.
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Everything seemed fine until the shit hit the fan (ha) in September 2006, when Croce was arrested on charges of obscenity, and for making the Dragon Films catalog available for download online.
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A group of Trump supporters have made it their mission to try to get me reported for obscenity, they've been saying children can view it and it's sexual harassment to Donald Trump.
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During the Tony Awards ceremony in June, he gave a speech in which he attacked the president with an obscenity, and a video of his comments was widely shared on social media.
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In 19663, in another well-publicized case that again involved the issue of obscenity, Mr. Hutchinson defended the director of a play called "The Romans in Britain" against charges of gross indecency.
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The disparities are similar for audible obscenity fines (344 for the men, 21998 for the women) and, most relevant to Williams's complaint, verbal abuse (22008 for the men, 22009 for the women).
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Seeing his wife's body, "I screamed an obscenity and ran to her," Mark told ABC's 2741/20 in an episode about the love triangle-turned-tragedy that airs Friday at 10 p.m.
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Besides being known for his obscenity-laced language, the governor has used his power to drag out the implementation of the state's Medicaid expansion, which passed overwhelmingly via ballot initiative last year.
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"I can probably say that word, but I just won't," the CNN host Don Lemon said on Thursday night, as he tangled with the obscenity-laced quotations that were displayed on screen.
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The themes included: "doing nothing," microscopic movements (raising an eyebrow, flicking fingers), violence, eroticism, dance history, obscenity, and politics — a "Brexit means Brexit" gesture made by Theresa May is even in there.
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"Content of wrong public opinion orientation, obscenity and ethnic discrimination continued to spread on Sina Weibo," the Beijing office of the Cyberspace Administration of China said in a statement late on Saturday.
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There were trustees interested in the photos and painting constructions and curators who were supporting the work but after that, the trustees said we will not give a penny to this obscenity.
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Besides being known for his obscenity-laced language, the governor has used his power to drag out the implementation of the state's Medicaid expansion, which passed overwhelmingly on a ballot initiative last year.
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" Rabbi Jonah C. Steinberg, the executive director of Harvard Hillel, sent an email to the magazine's editors, which he shared with BuzzFeed News, that compared the image "to the obscenity of the Nazis.
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He actually talks exactly like Reynolds' character in Deadpool, though with the obscenity knob turned way down — he's brash, babbly, and funny, with a smartass energy that's welcome in such a reserved space.
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Last month, at a swearing-in ceremony, they displayed a "Hong Kong is not China" banner; Mr. Leung used a derogatory term for China in his oath, and Ms. Yau used an obscenity.
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On the street outside the conference, a man yells an obscenity at me, and though he is telling me I am attractive, I feel betrayed by my own embodiment and long to disappear.
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Infuriated by the thefts, as well as an obscenity about Donald J. Trump that had been spray-painted on the public mailbox in front of his house, Mr. Ricatto installed a security camera.
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Mr. Hutchinson often fought against the prevailing definitions of obscenity in cases that were seen as landmarks in Britain's transition from a prudish and hidebound society to a more open and tolerant one.
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We profiled Ms. Rapinoe, who also sparred with President Trump this week after using an obscenity to dismiss the idea of visiting the White House if her team wins the Women's World Cup.
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But he's also adroit with more leisurely horrors, like the snap-crackle-pop of the murderous shade flexing for the kill, or the slow animation of a sacklike scarecrow into a toothy obscenity.
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The show's curators, Suzy González and Michael Menchaca (known as "Dos Mestizx"), launched a petition calling for the work's reinstatement and asking that the city of San Antonio reassess its definition of obscenity.
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In 1964, appearing in his only major criminal case, he represented Bruce, the controversial comedian, who was arraigned on obscenity charges after a performance at the Cafe Au Go Go in Greenwich Village.
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Tammy Duckworth of Illinois asked if Pruitt thought Morocco, a North African country, was a "s---hole" when he visited last year, referring to Trump's use of the obscenity to describe African countries.
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The obscenity by Kyrgios, who produced perhaps the shot of the tournament early in his 22016-6, 6-3, 6-2 loss to the 11th-seeded Coric, was apparently directed at a spectator.
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During a separate court appearance last week, Osborne pleaded guilty to four counts of complicity to rape, complicity to kidnapping and pandering obscenity involving a minor, a Loraine County Court official confirms to PEOPLE.
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Dallas Police Chief David Brown told the council that undercover officers saw no crimes committed at last year's event, and there was no reported spike in prostitution or violations of the state's obscenity laws.
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When a show of Francis Bacon's work in London in 1955 was investigated by the police for obscenity, the raciest painting on display was of two abstract male figures lying together in the grass.
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Yee had previously been jailed twice in Singapore on charges that included spreading obscenity and "wounding racial or religious feelings" before December when he flew to Chicago, where he was detained at O'Hare Airport.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Monday condemned an obscenity-laden tirade against President Vladimir Putin on a Georgian TV station, calling it a shameful and unacceptable provocation by radical political forces intended to damage relations.
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On the other hand, obscenity may extend to deviant acts that are not sexual, and images of extreme cruelty alone could possibly be obscene, as evidenced by a case involving videos of animal cruelty.
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Moscow has complained in recent weeks about anti-Kremlin protests in Georgia and on Monday condemned an obscenity-laden tirade against Putin on a Georgian TV station which it blamed on radical political forces.
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I'm reminded of what you once said about the jungle, while shooting Fitzcarraldo, how it was full of obscenity and death, but how you also liked it a great deal, beyond your better judgment.
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A thousand genres, too, from funk ("Kiss"), dance ("Uptown"), rock ("The Cross"), techno ("New World"), pop ("When Doves Cry"), obscenity ("Jack U Off"), beauty ("Nothing Compares 2 U") and all the world in between.
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All it took was an obscenity laced conversation with Anne Coulter and a weekend spent with conservative Fox News commentators like Sean Hannity and Jeanine Pirro for him to show his rawest nationalistic side.
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"The obscenity laws have not been enforced at all under the Obama administration," said Donna Rice Hughes, the president and CEO of Enough Is Enough (EIE), which is the country's leading anti-porn nonprofit.
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In Les Blank's documentary Burden of Dreams, Werner Herzog—then in the process of filming his epic period piece Fitzcarraldo deep in the Peruvian jungle—rants against the "obscenity" of his lushly overgrown surroundings.
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"The federal government ought to enforce adult obscenity laws, which have been repeatedly upheld by the Supreme Court, if they are ever going to decrease the demand for child sexual abuse material," Trueman said.
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In Japanese obscenity law, a person who "distributes, sells, or displays in public an obscene document, drawing or other objects" is punishable with up to two years in prison or a 2,500,000-yen fine.
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I rolled it for no more than two seconds, as instructed, and, also as instructed, placed it inside a mold imprinted with an obscenity and the image of a cat raising a middle finger.
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The advice has resurfaced a day after a New Yorker reporter, Ryan Lizza, published a piece detailing the gratuitous, obscenity-laden phone call he got from the new White House communications director Wednesday night.
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Witness Hentoff taking the stand in Lenny Bruce's obscenity trial, and placing himself in the line of fire, as William F. Buckley berated the specter of Black Power on his TV program Firing Line.
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Some influential groups such as Numbers USA and the Federation for American Immigration Reform have criticized the proposal, labeling the extension of DACA "amnesty" — an obscenity from the perspective of hardline conservatives like Ann Coulter.
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Critics say that enforcing its existing obscenity laws online will drag the UK back into a pre-internet era of prurient morality, and ignores the fact that these are legal activities performed between consenting adults.
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If you name your band something like Dayglo Abortions, you should expect a lifetime of constant headaches, protests, censorship, and possibly even a court trial that will challenge your art as an act of obscenity.
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But Noah is presented here as so much more reasonable than he is elsewhere during Helen's half of the episode — he's mostly an angry, obscenity-spewing mess — that the portrayal likely betrays her true assessment.
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Paula Vogel's "Indecent" (April 4, Cort) tells the backstage story of Sholem Asch's Yiddish drama "God of Vengeance," which created an uproar when it played Broadway, in 1923, and the cast was charged with obscenity.
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At a pivotal moment of a heated tennis match between Brian and Russ, obsessive rivals whose entire season of amateur competition has been building toward this day, an obscenity-spiked command erupts from Brian's mouth.
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The letter posits that the removal of Ibarra's work is an attack on First Amendment rights, arguing that the city's interpretation of obscenity is inconsistent with the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision Miller v. California.
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In Washington, David Guthrie, a long-haired, bearded, 36-year-old from South Bend, Indiana, stood stark naked on a street corner with an obscenity and "Trump" written on his buttocks in black magic marker.
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The website posting said U.S. attorneys in Arizona and California, as well as the Justice Department's section on child exploitation and obscenity and the California and Texas attorneys general had helped shut down the website.
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Each theme entry is clued as a grawlix (a string of typographical symbols used to represent an obscenity or swear word) with the name of the actor or cartoon character most associated with uttering it.
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Viewed from one angle, pornography and obscenity put creators on the front lines of the progressive fight for free speech, because they're challenging social norms and fighting for the right to express themselves however they wish.
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Moscow in recent weeks has complained about anti-Kremlin protests in Georgia and on Monday condemned an obscenity-laden tirade against President Vladimir Putin on a Georgian TV station which it blamed on radical political forces.
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Mr. Kalanick himself was caught on a video, which quickly went viral, in which he told one of Uber's drivers that "some people just don't want to take responsibility" for their own behavior, using an obscenity.
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In other words, one can be brought to court on an obscenity charge, not a child porn charge, for creating or possessing computer-generated child porn, where no actual children were involved in creating the pornography.
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At the time, a neighbor claimed the actor was ripping up plants in the common area of the apartment complex, and when confronted, Hall allegedly responded with an obscenity and challenged the man to a fight.
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The play with music explores the controversy surrounding the 1923 Broadway play "God of Vengeance," which was shut down after the police charged the cast members with obscenity, in part because it depicted a lesbian relationship.
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Once one of Hollywood's biggest stars — he won two Oscars for "Braveheart" — he became a movie industry pariah in 2006, when he was charged with drunken driving and went on an obscenity-laced, anti-Semitic tirade.
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The district said the piece might violate a state rule that it said prevented publications at public schools from featuring "obscenity, defamation and incitement," and it threatened to fire Katherine Duffel, the paper's longtime faculty adviser.
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It leads some politicians down the wrong path by thinking that images must pass a threshold of obscenity before being unlawful, or that the perpetrator must be acting for purposes of sexual gratification to be criminalized.
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"If for some reason you're on a different track from other people you're around, it's going to jangle everybody's sensibilities," Morrison said in a meandering response to a question about an obscenity arrest in New Haven.
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One key area that the committee must address is Trump's Pledge to appoint an Attorney General who will make the enforcement of the federal obscenity, child pornography, sexual predation and sex trafficking laws a top priority.
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Witnesses and reporters looked on in shock as a heated exchange culminating in a deeply offensive obscenity broke out between the two men, who had a longstanding feud, ending when Sharifi struck Khakrezwal in the face.
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Apart from the obscenities he spouted during his match on Wednesday — these were captured by TV cameras and microphones — Fognini was fined $27,500 at the 2014 Wimbledon for unsportsmanlike conduct, which included outbursts and an obscenity.
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In fact, the EU was the principal culprit in wrecking this round to defend the economic obscenity of the common agricultural policy, which you described as "disgraceful" at the time ("Deadlocked in Doha", March 29th 2003).
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Mr. Kalanick himself was caught on a video, which quickly went viral, in which he told one of Uber's drivers that "some people just don't want to take responsibility" for their own behavior, using an obscenity.
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As scrutiny of him has intensified in recent weeks, Mr. Stone has lashed out more aggressively, sending a series of caustic, obscenity-laced messages on Twitter, several of which he deleted a few hours after posting.
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Mr. Fairfax has adamantly denied Dr. Tyson's allegations; NBC News reported on Wednesday that he used an obscenity to describe Dr. Tyson as he sought to discredit her during a private State Senate caucus meeting Monday.
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In December 2018, Cuban government commented to the Associated Press that the law's impact would be softened as it would be applied only in exceptional cases to artistic products containing public obscenity, racist, or sexist content.
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As he passed by, Healey said, "See you tomorrow," and the manager turned and responded with an obscenity as he left the room, only to return in a few minutes to direct another expletive at Healey.
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The actress, 44, was sued by three Egyptian lawyers over her red carpet dress claiming that the dress and its completely sheer skirt displayed public obscenity and created "incitement to debauchery," according to the New York Times.
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A playground supervisor had complained that a student had shouted an obscenity at him, but since the supervisor couldn't identify the specific offender, he'd simply filed charges against every student playing nearby, a group that included Hayden.
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So it makes sense that in a world in which President Trump uses the word "shithole" during a policy meeting, which was then followed by news divisions' decisions to repeat the obscenity, these standards are always evolving.
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"In the future, we're going to have tools that are going to be able to identify more types of bad content" like hate speech, fake news, obscenity, revenge porn, and other controversial content on Facebook, Zuckerberg said.
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Hewitt swatted the court at one stage with his racket, dropped it in frustration at another and even received a warning for an audible obscenity, which sparked a prickly discussion with the French chair umpire, Pascal Maria.
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Both ESPN and TBS are cable stations, which means they don't have to play by the FCC's rules on obscenity, indecency, and profanity, but that doesn't mean they're going to show anything that toes those lines either.
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It examines the controversy over a 1923 Broadway show, "God of Vengeance," that was shut down after the police charged the cast members with obscenity, at least in part because of a lesbian relationship in the plot.
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Ms. Briskman, 50, had violated the company's social media policy on obscenity by sharing the image on Facebook and Twitter, they told her, according to the lawsuit filed on Wednesday in Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia.
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Teddy's rage at the senseless loss and the virtual violation makes him vulnerable, unpredictably, to another obscenity: a false-flag narrative peddled by an "Infowars"-like show, relentlessly flowing from a radio as he clutches a pillow.
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Kyrgios had picked up the initial fine for unsportsmanlike conduct, verbal abuse and an audible obscenity in Cincinnati after arguing with the chair umpire and smashing two rackets during his second-round defeat by Russia's Karen Khachanov.
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He had a dramatic falling out with the Knicks and Dolan after he was traded in 2003, including an obscenity-laced tirade directed at Dolan on his first visit back to the Garden as a visiting player.
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The 21-year-old was fined a total of $5,500 for an audible obscenity and racket abuse on his way to a second-round defeat to Italy's Andreas Seppi, a match he led by two sets to love.
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"Unlike those undercover stings where the government buys contraband drugs to catch the dealers, here the government disseminated child obscenity to catch the purchasers — something akin to the government itself selling drugs to make the sting," he wrote.
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A first-time offender convicted of producing child pornography faces up to 30 years in prison, while an obscenity charge carries a punishment of at least five years and up to a maximum of 20 years in prison.
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In 2017, Chastain told members that licensing and hosting costs were unsustainable without outside funding which the site was struggling to secure; no longer relying on PayPal donations since the payments platform cut ties with Voat over "obscenity."
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Keeping / the window open is a treasure trove, filled with complete or partial facsimiles of many now-rare publications and ephemera, not to mention a typescript chapter from Keith's 1964 doctoral thesis, Aesthetic Uses of Obscenity in Literature.
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The Maharashtra government, which opposes dance bars on the grounds of obscenity, had proposed more than two dozen conditions for new licenses but the Supreme Court rejected some of them, including requiring a live stream to police stations.
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Donald Trump in the White House, a neverending stream of obscenity available on everyone's phone at all times, like the novels of Jane Austen, the finest observations of MANNERS thus far constructed, perverted with nonsensical violent supernatural elements.
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As one of my partners said about corporate behavior that would be a disqualifying factor in owning a stock, "We know it when we see it," paraphrasing Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in his 1964 description of obscenity.
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What is striking today is how his comedy has been obscured by his reputation as a truth-telling social critic and boundary-pusher who became a symbol for free speech after being arrested multiple times on obscenity charges.
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In a series of three rulings, the court also held that a publication which would be suitable for sale to the medical profession crosses the obscenity line if it is peddled ''in order to catch the salaciously disposed.
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Without further ado: + The vulva-shaped sculptures of Japanese "vagina artist" Megumi Igarashi, who was arrested last year for allegedly breaking the country's anti-obscenity laws with her work, were excused as "Pop art" by a Tokyo court.
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He stated that Marek presented himself as a mature person who understood and accepted his wrong-doing, but that doesn't change the fact that wrongdoing was done and that the crime fit the definition of the obscenity law.
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In the docs, Daniel Perelmutter says Driver's made it impossible for him to finish construction on his home, and her obscenity-laced tirades are stressing him out -- a serious issue, since he says he's had a heart transplant.
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The revue (for which Beatles producer George Martin specially recorded a sound tape at Abbey Road) was very dirty—right-wing activists called for it to be shut down, and the obscenity squad investigated—and also quite successful.
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"It's extremely disappointing that grown adults are capable of such pathetic acts and do so with their full names and photos posted right with it on Facebook," a moderator for the Reddit page BravoRealHousewives wrote (with an obscenity).
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CAIRO — Egypt's highest appeals court on Sunday suspended the prison sentence of Ahmed Naji, a prominent writer who had been convicted on charges of obscenity, in a decision that paved the way for his release, his lawyer said.
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That is an obscenity, and let me tell you something, when we make it to the White House, when we make it to the White House, the pharmaceutical industry will not continue to rip off the American people.
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He didn't just help make pictures of naked women mainstream — as Laura Mansnerus writes in a New York Times obituary, he also championed sexual openness in a time of rigid mores, campaigning against laws restricting abortion and obscenity.
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India's cable TV companies — which are legally required to abide by the Indian broadcasting ministry's censorship and obscenity laws — have also called out streaming companies for their content, which is not legally regulated in the same way theirs is.
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Although in the Bush years obscenity prosecutions leaned heavily towards pornography, it is worth remembering that in 1990, 2 Live Crew were arrested for performing "As Nasty As They Wanna Be" in public under the premise of this law.
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This kind of legally dubious chilling effect isn't limited to obscenity law: it's pretty much a standard feature of porn law, which tends to offer up harassment masked in baseless claims of improved safety and the protection of children.
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Anyway I really wanted to take this book to school to show off to my friends — it was the 1960 Penguin Books edition that went to court for obscenity — but of course I knew my dad would miss it.
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Not that anyone could ever accuse Park of being anti-obscenity, especially after watching The Handmaiden, in which characters stick everything from bells to knives in their orifices, and at one point simulate sex on a suspended wooden mannequin.
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Kyrgios took exception to the ruling, then proceeded to stew over it for the rest of the set, which he lost, picking up a well-deserved code violation for an audible obscenity after being broken in the second game.
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" Generally, you can't use a pictograph, an ideogram, a number, an obscenity, or a name that is excessively long, but the regulations vary wildly from state to state and are often the domain of randomly applied "desk-clerk law.
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What Trump's inner circle can't seem to grasp is that the very reason they cite for their continued association with moral obscenity is the same one that ought to be convincing all of them to resign in spectacular fashion.
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The vice crusader Anthony Comstock had conspired to have her arrested for obscenity after she printed articles exposing the alleged affairs of two of the city's most prominent men — one of whom was Harriet Beecher Stowe's brother the Rev.
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But Colbert outdid himself when he joked on May 1 that Trump's mouth was only good for being "Vladimir Putin's cock holster," a punchline that inspired obscenity complaints to the Federal Communications Commission and, apparently, caught the president's attention.
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There were so many troubling incidents involving costumed characters in Times Square and elsewhere — Spider-Man slugging a cop, Elmo launching into an obscenity-laced rant — that the city created zones in which characters must remain while soliciting tips.
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Instead, this bill does nothing to rein in out-of-control military spending, prevent unconstitutional war against Iran, limit the poisoning of Americans' drinking water, or end the obscenity of innocent children in Yemen being killed by U.S. bombs.
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Some of the conditions include no further code violations that result in a fine for verbal or physical abuse of officials, fans or any others on-court or on-site and unsportsmanlike conduct and any obscenity directed at officials.
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Here are some of your reasons: change in the age distribution of listeners, Bluetooth supplanting disc players, decrease in influence of radio play, some music not available in stores, and obscenity laced lyrics that cannot be on the airwaves.
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Take what happened to comedic screen siren Mae West in 21970 after she dared to write and star in a Broadway play titled "Sex": She was sentenced to 21998 days in a woman's workhouse and fined $25 on obscenity charges.
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In Miller, the Court fashioned a test for obscenity that considers such things as whether the content, when viewed as a whole, appeals to a prurient interest in sex and whether the speech has serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
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IKEA's furniture might bring you to the verge of tears and obscenity while you attempt to put it together — but in the future, the retailer could allow you to drown out your struggles with its own high quality sound systems.
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The commission's executive director, Godfrey Mutabazi, told Reuters the journalists would be reassigned until the commission finishes an investigation into alleged violations of broadcasting rules that prohibit the publication of material that might incite violence, hatred, obscenity or inflame sectarianism.
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Branson started his first business, Virgin Records, in 1970 (with the Sex Pistols "Never Mind the Bollocks" album landing a Virgin store manager in court for obscenity in 1977 — Branson hired the Queen's attorney and he was found not guilty).
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Even a Sessions-led crackdown on obscenity might be welcomed if it was "part and parcel of a broader crackdown on social liberalism," one that would harken a return to a time when men had total control over women's bodies.
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This balance is not the one I would have chosen — and certainly there have been missteps and failures — but an average user of Reddit won't encounter the extremes of obscenity and indecency that it allows in darker corners of the site.
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The arms race that is mega cruise ship design ticks one minute closer to midnight on the doomsday clock of obscenity as Norwegian Cruise Lines has revealed its next luxury ship will include the world's first two-level floating race track.
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According to the AP, a court ruled yesterday that Igarashi, who goes by "Rokudenashiko" ("good-for-nothing girl"), is guilty of obscenity for sharing the data but not for exhibiting her physical objects since they qualify as art under Japanese law.
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He is the driving force behind the 2017 "Human Trafficking Prevention Act," a nationwide effort to install "obscenity blockers" on devices and through internet service providers, and has pushed similar bills to the Rhode Island legislation in other states as well.
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Ricardo Rosselló said Sunday evening that he will not resign in the face of public furor over an obscenity-laced leaked online chat, but he will not seek re-election or continue as head of his pro-statehood political party.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - The Washington Post on Wednesday called on Maine Governor Paul LePage to resign, following a series of incidents in which the two-term Republican made racially charged statements and threatened a Democratic lawmaker in an obscenity-laden email.
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It had been serialized in an American magazine called The Little Review starting in 1918, but the Review went on trial on obscenity charges after it published the masturbation episode, and the Postal Service burned copies of the magazine, too.
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"Lady Chatterley's Lover": The copy of the D.H. Lawrence novel that in 1960 was used by a British judge in one of the most famous obscenity trials of the century was sold at auction last year to an unidentified buyer.
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He was arrested in 1968, when he was a partner in Caffe Cino, an Off Off Broadway theater in the West Village, for staging a play in which a character uttered an obscenity before an audience that included a child.
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"When his fever has gone down, Jean-Michel Aulas will see the obscenity of his opportunism and will quickly return to the values that make him a great footballing operator," OM president Jacques-Henri Eyraud told Le Journal du Dimanche.
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The play was a passion project for Ms. Vogel and Ms. Taichman, who together developed its story, the history of the early 20th-century work "God of Vengeance," a Yiddish play that was dogged by censorship and charges of obscenity.
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Comstock — not satisfied with attacking just pornography — argued that the definition of obscenity should be expanded to include materials related to reproductive health, birth control and abortion, and he drafted legislation with some help from a Supreme Court justice, William Strong.
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"Indecent" tells the story of the Yiddish play "God of Vengeance," an early 20th-century work by Sholem Asch that featured the first kiss between two women on Broadway and was promptly shut down, its cast and crew charged with obscenity.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese court found on Monday an artist not guilty of obscenity for displaying figurines modeled on her vagina, signaling a step towards freedom of expression, although the court fined her for distributing digital data of her genitals.
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TNT began airing the series on Wednesday, but the Russian-language service of the BBC noted it had edited out a play on words about Putin and an expensive make of Swiss watch, Hublot, which sounds like an obscenity in Russian.
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The book's ruthless appropriation of the Anthropocene will almost certainly be regarded as an obscenity by those who first rallied around it, a celebration of the very hubris that brought us to the brink of destruction in the first place.
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TNT began airing the series on Wednesday, but the Russian-language service of the BBC noted it had edited out a play on words about Putin and an expensive make of Swiss watch, Hublot, which sounds like an obscenity in Russian.
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" In a 1990 interview after the raid of his studio, Sturges commented, "If obscenity is simply a matter of somebody being without clothes, then there are so many other things that would be inherently obscene — medical books, the National Geographic.
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It is outrageous that Trump's policymaking process is in such shambles that he didn't bother to run his executive order on refugees past any of the career staff in various agencies who could have saved him from this moral obscenity.
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The banner states that the enforcement action was a collaborative effort between the FBI, US Postal Inspection Service, the criminal division of the IRS, the Department of Justice's child exploitation and obscenity division, as well as attorneys general from Arizona, California, and Texas.
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Although his company is still fairly active, Mike has been out of the spotlight and (for the most part) the industry for almost a decade following high-profile obscenity cases in the early 2000s that were linked in part to his bukkake productions.
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They can drag the slider back and forth, for instance, to automatically approve all comments with only a 0 to 20 percent summary score, which is based on a combination of a comment's potential for obscenity, toxicity, and likelihood to be rejected.
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"If you don't know a thing about the company, then you should diversify," Mr. Whitman growled, using an obscenity to underscore his view that owning a broad basket of securities reflects a lack of confidence and conviction on the part of the investor.
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Kessler was a few minutes into his remarks outside Charlottesville's City Hall when two members of the crowd, one of whom had been repeatedly yelling an obscenity at Kessler, moved toward Kessler as he stood behind a stand with several microphones on it.
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In a bizarre turn of events, the Delhi Government's cultural wing has taken offence to a college theater group's performance and has "disqualified" them on charges of "obscenity" for using words like "bra" and "panty" in a play, reported the Hindustan Times.
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A number of American movies have been banned for a variety of reasons around the world, many of those reasons are related to obscenity laws and political leaders being against plotlines that show them in a negative light (see: Zoolander ban in Malaysia).
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Michael Veale, a researcher studying responsible machine learning at University College London, told me the reason the Scunthorpe problem is such a tough nut to crack is because creating effective obscenity filters depends on the filter's ability to understand a word in context.
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"God of Vengeance" then moves to Broadway, and under the glare of the attention it receives, comes under fire from both the arbiters of Jewish culture in the city and the authorities, who arrest the cast and producer on charges of obscenity.
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Because the FCC doesn't actually have people sitting around watching every hour of TV every day, it's up to conservative watchdog groups like this to watch all that filth and call in their complaints, so networks can be punished for profanity or obscenity.
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Although mainstream publishers allowed the risqué novels to circulate, due to the strict obscenity laws of the time, the female characters had to be punished for their indiscretions and offenses against heteronormativity in order for the books to make it to print.
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My father was a civil liberties lawyer; he fought for Lenny Bruce's right to offend when his comedy routine violated New York's obscenity statutes in 1964, and for American neo-Nazis' right to march in 1978 in the Chicago suburb of Skokie, Ill.
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According to Mr. Blas, museum officials in China had initially asked to cut two lines in the video (an obscenity and a reference to Adolf Hitler) before cultural authorities decided ultimately to reject the entire work, which also deals with issues of feminism.
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" His perspective echoes comments from the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, which said in a recent statement that Graham's legislative efforts to combat child sexual exploitation "will fall short unless the major adult obscenity websites accessed by millions across the globe are prosecuted.
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Even with proper rest, there are other stress factors to consider, like cantankerous showrunners (see: the obscenity-filled emails Frank Darabont sent to his staff during Season One of "The Walking Dead"), or the constant scramble of having to find the next gig.
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In a Tuesday statement, Abbas Mousavi called the US allegation "obscenity" while "Iraqi people are overwhelmed with bloodshed [in which] at least 25 people died," a reference to the death toll of US airstrikes on the militia, Kataib Hezbollah, in Iraq on Sunday.
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That was not the case, however, with Putnam's 217 edition of "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure," the 21955 John Cleland novel about a 21967-year-old prostitute, also known as "Fanny Hill"; it ran into obscenity charges in New York and Massachusetts.
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In their legal brief filed last week, scholars joined forces with rhymesmiths including Chance the Rapper, Killer Mike, 21 Savage, Meek Mill, Fat Joe and Luther Campbell, whose 2 Live Crew was integral in shaping the nation's obscenity laws in the 1990s.
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They were, in many ways, like a running diary: after he got arrested on obscenity charges on two separate occasions in 1964, for screening both Smith's Flaming Creaturesand Jean Genet's Un Chant d'Amour, he detailed the cases over multiple columns in the Voice.
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Six days after pledging to shake things up in his new role as White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci made good on that promise when he picked up the phone and gave an obscenity-laced interview to the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza.
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Art and the first amendment are often at a crossroad which raises the question: do the tests for obscenity, which defend art like Robert Mapplethorpe's sexually explicit work at the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center in 1990, extend to protect racially offensive content?
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On one occasion, when he thought the camera had stopped filming, Nixon told an interviewer how he had inserted a crude obscenity into a quote from Lyndon Johnson, because it made for a more colorful story — and portrayed Johnson as a vulgar bumpkin.
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She also pleaded guilty to four counts of kidnapping, another four for pandering obscenity involving a minor, three counts of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material and one count each of tampering with evidence and engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity.
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Ferlinghetti was subsequently arrested as well and the ensuing obscenity trial and the publisher's court victory over state censorship solidified the stature of both the publishing venture and the bookstore – and emboldened other publishers like Grove Press who were also pushing back against US censorship.
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He wrote as people spoke, with plenty of swearing, obscenity, Lombardy dialect, tall tales from smugglers and fishermen and the invented language, "grammelot", he picked up from foreign workers in a glass factory near Lake Maggiore, where he grew up as a stationmaster's son.
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For the anti-obscenity wing of the Republican Party, calls to Trump That Bitch, Grab America By the Pussy, and bombard any woman who advocates for her personhood with violent, explicit rape threats are ultimately tolerable, no matter how crass or obscene they are.
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"I assembled a meeting last August with the Attorney General to talk about the need to prosecute obscenity, enforce the laws, because I believe that the nation is now undergoing a public health crisis caused by the widespread consumption of pornography," Trueman told VICE.
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He was there to urge his fellow senators to pass his and Indiana senator Dan Coats' amendment to the Communications Decency Act, or CDA, which would extend the existing indecency and anti-obscenity laws to the "interactive computer services" of the burgeoning internet age.
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"In the past decade, we've seen a lot of the conversation shift away from obscenity, which had become difficult to prosecute because of the internet, and toward this idea that porn was damaging, addictive, or inspired criminality," said Mike Stabile of the Free Speech Coalition.
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"I'm old enough to remember the whole Jack Thompson era of trying to say video games are violent and they should be banned," she said, referencing the infamous disbarred obscenity lawyer known for a strident crusade against games and other media that has spanned decades.
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Trump's decision to kill DACA — never mind the attempt to obscure things with that meaningless delay — is, first and foremost, a moral obscenity: throwing out 800,000 young people who are Americans in every way that matters, who have done nothing wrong, basically for racial reasons.
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"Because so many free-speech claims of the 25s and 24s involved anti-obscenity claims, or civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests, it was easy for the left to sympathize with the speakers or believe that speech in general was harmless," he said.
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In a study of sex, Stone might have been interested in any number of practices, but he has confined his investigation to matters that are sources of ongoing constitutional and political debate in the United States today: abortion, contraception, obscenity, and sodomy or homosexuality.
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Rosset had bought rights to more than four hundred art films, like the sexually explicit Swedish film "I Am Curious (Yellow)," but, with the relaxation of obscenity laws, the nation's art houses switched to X-rated pornography, and Rosset had no outlet for his movies.
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Koon also pleaded guilty to four counts each of kidnapping and pandering obscenity involving a minor, three counts of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material and one count each of tampering with evidence and engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, Wightman says.
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The White House issuing two high-profile pink slips in such a short time span, combined with Scaramucci's recent notoriety after his jaw-dropping, obscenity-laced phone call with New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza, made the opportunity to comment simply too good for many people to ignore.
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The scholarship of Amy Adler, a professor at NYU Law (mentioned only in passing at the end of Artnet's article), was one of the first to consider how art ushered us to rethink the law's regulation of all types of expression, including obscenity and postmodern appropriation.
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George Nader, who served as a go-between for President Trump's transition team and Russian and Middle East officials in 2016 and 2017, was charged in a Virginia federal court on Friday with sex trafficking, child pornography and obscenity, as first reported by The Daily Beast.
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For long-time residents of Cincinnati, the name conjures a polarizing event in local history: the 1990 trial during which the city indicted its Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) and the institution's director, Dennis Barrie, for obscenity in their exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs, entitled The Perfect Moment.
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And when, in Game 8, you heard that George "High Pockets" Kelly of the New York Giants hit the title-winning grounder, you might have cheered—or if you were a Yankees fan, thrown your newsboy cap to the ground and uttered some old-timey obscenity.
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Instead of using that classic obscenity benchmark—you know it when you see it—Facebook is, in the documents, explaining everything and trying to define context and intent where, in the insane world of online content, there may be none, or it may prove impossible to assign.
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Sexting scandal: Colorado high school faces felony investigation Three male juveniles were arrested Tuesday night and charged with obscenity, transmitting or possession of child pornography by a minor as well as felony counts of possession of child pornography and obscenities as to minors, according to Sgt.
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Even if we stipulate, for the sake of argument, that the left has been using immigrants as props in a culture war, that is surely a venial sin compared to the obscenity of "snatching babies from their mothers" because you see those children as a potential terrorists.
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When plans for the building, which included a meditation room, an elevator and a kitchen the size of an Applebee's, were publicized earlier this year, some who have been on the street for decades and I reveled in talking about the ludicrous obscenity of it all.
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The volatile Australian, who won the Citi Open in Washington on Sunday, was dumped out of the opening round of the Rogers Cup by Britain's Kyle Edmund 6-3 6-63 after an angry exchange with the umpire saw him collect a code violation for an obscenity.
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Like all Rob Zombie films, these are steeped in violence and obscenity, but the deranged atmosphere does more to make Michael feel interesting than all the previous films — he's both a superhuman killer and a boy plainly driven by the sociological factors that turn people into sociopaths.
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Popular political leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman, who heads the Assembly of Islamic Clerics (JUIF), a hard line, right wing Islamist party, called on his supporters to stop the marches, condemning them as threatening Muslim culture and excuses for "vulgarity and obscenity " in the name of human rights.
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Since 2007 Turkey has applied Law 5651, which can ban access to sites deemed to feature an "incitement to commit suicide, child abuse, the promotion of drug use, obscenity, prostitution, gambling, the provision of drugs" as well as wider "crimes against Ataturk" that fall under Law 5816.
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The fatal mistake, however, came in the fourth set with Schwartzman up 4-2 and Zverev fighting to stay in the match when the German was slapped with a point penalty after directing an obscenity at his box that gave the Argentina a 5-2 lead.
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On Wednesday morning, President Trump criticized Ms. Rapinoe with a three-tweet blast in response to a recent interview in which Ms. Rapinoe stated, with an obscenity, that she would not go to the White House if the United States were to win the World Cup.
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Those efforts are assisted by teams of prosecutors based at the Justice Department's headquarters and deployed throughout the country to assist in dismantling gangs and sex traffickers, including the Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit, the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and the Organized Crime and Gang Section.
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In 1963, a few years after Penguin Books was acquitted of obscenity for publishing D. H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" in Britain, Mr. Calder acquired the rights to Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" — effectively daring the authorities to prosecute him under the British Obscene Publications Act of 20023.
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He wrote the government administrator who oversaw publications under the obscenity act to tell him of his plans to publish "Tropic" and of the list of luminaries — Graham Greene and Bertrand Russell among them — he had persuaded to defend it in court if there were a prosecution.
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Charles M. Blow Every now and then we are going to have to do this: Step back from the daily onslaughts of insanity emanating from Donald Trump's parasitic presidency and remind ourselves of the obscenity of it all, registering its magnitude in its full, devastating truth.
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Furthermore, the rhetoric around "freedom of expression" must be subject to a reality-check to remind everyone that the law already takes a firm stand against irresponsible communication in the forms of incitement to lawlessness; obscenity; unauthorized disclosure of private information; and damages to national security.
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As acting attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, Barr focused extensively on obscenity and pornography prosecutions, leading some in the porn industry to voice their concerns about his nomination in 2018, while anti-pornography advocates expressed hope for more action to be taken against the industry.
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In his quest to piss off the entire world and make himself rich in the process, Flynt developed a bull-headed insistence upon contesting every single lawsuit and obscenity charge that came his way, transforming him into an unlikely canary in the coal mine of First Amendment law.
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MANILA (Reuters) - (Please note obscenity in paragraph nine) Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte demanded on Wednesday the European Union show him respect worthy of a president, despite giving the bloc a one-finger gesture and a vulgar four-letter rebuke after its legislators expressed concern about his drug war.
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PEOPLE confirms that Dennis Perkins has been charged with 60 counts of production of pornography involving a juvenile under age 13, two counts of first-degree rape, three counts of possession of pornography involving a juvenile under age 13, two counts of video voyeurism and two counts of obscenity.
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Even formerly respectably museum boards like those of the Corcoran Museum of Art were willing to cancel his show for fear of the Reagan era's NEA attackers; while the Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati was taken to court for obscenity, the first major American museum to be so threatened.
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" As for the super-yachts, "It's an obscenity—they come from a group of people who want to ignore their environment," said Roger, pointing out that thanks to new emissions regulations, "there'll be a lot of obscenities owned by the likes of Abramovich that can't enter American waters.
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As the decades wore on and the Supreme Court passed down a number of rulings that more closely pinpointed the definition of prosecutable obscenity, full-scale adult theaters began to pop up, and big-budget, full-length feature films showing explicit sex were played on the silver screen.
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In the years since sexual predators and the truly depraved began posting black market images of child porn and extreme obscenity online and conversing in chat rooms about how to molest children during the early 1990s, both types of illegal content have continued to explode onto the internet.
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"What is interesting about the case is that past case law on child pornography and obscenity in Canada has primarily focused on visual, audiovisual, or written representations—that is, on images or stories rather than on three-dimensional objects," Anita Lam, a criminology professor at York University, told VICE.
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During the Bush era, censorship-driven porn regulation meant requiring pornographers to keep extensive, precisely-ordered records (the aforementioned 2257 regulations, which—despite recent legal challenges—are still very much in effect) and slapping obscenity charges on boundary-pushing pornographers like Max Hardcore, Extreme Associates, and Evil Angel.
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This tripartite structure in turn suggested a form for "Triptych," which very loosely moves from a mythologizing overture ("it was said he had face of a god / yet some saw a demon with rope shoes") to reflections on the obscenity trial and issues of race in his work.
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A 55-year-old white man was walking with his wife along a busy commercial section of East 187th Street, when Ms. Heard stopped them, used an obscenity to announce her hatred for Caucasians and then sprayed the man in the face with pepper spray, the police said.
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After the Europeans arrived, the 142-acre, 800-foot-wide strip in the East River was named Blackwells Island and became home to the New York City Lunatic Asylum and a prison whose most famous temporary residents included Mae West (obscenity), Emma Goldman (inciting riots) and Boss Tweed (corruption).
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And in a literal pandemic, as millions of us are trying to practice home isolation while also attending to the needs of our families and communities, the obscenity of pretending that work and "the self" are the only things that matter—or even exist—becomes harder to ignore.
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You know the sort of thing: the blank gun in the play that fails to fire, the romantic kiss that transfers the mustache from his upper lip to hers, the "misspeak" that produces a perhaps unintended obscenity, or the wig that slips sideways and falls to roars of laughter.
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When he leaves her — claiming that married life is holding him back, though his only talent is for ripping off Bob Newhart routines — she finds herself onstage at the Gaslight Cafe, improvising a raunchy, fiery set that brings down the house (and gets her arrested on obscenity charges).
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A month after the book's publication, the novelist Radclyffe Hall was tried for obscenity — the same half-coded charge of homosexuality for which Oscar Wilde had been imprisoned a generation earlier — and all printed copies of her lesbian novel "The Well of Loneliness" were destroyed by court order.
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It's true that NBC's parent company, Comcast, owns and operates local NBC stations that hold FCC licenses, but the feds are prohibited from using their regulatory power to crack down on speech, with very few exceptions, such as obscenity, which the agency can address in response to complaints.
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Consider Alabama, where it's against the law to sell "any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs" under the Anti-Obscenity Enforcement Act, and Saudi Arabia, where masturbation is forbidden under Sharia Law and sex toys are on the list of prohibited imports.
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If anyone will be tormented by his new novel, "It's All Your Fault," it will be those who object to obscenity, sex, booze, drugs and celebrity behavior that seems ripped from the diaries of Lindsay, Miley and Justin with a dose of "Valley of the Dolls" and "Gossip Girl" mixed in.
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The porn czar's responsibilities did not extend to TV or the internet, but rather involved "advising municipal governments about obscenity law, helping tailor ordinances to suit local tastes as the United States Supreme Court has allowed, arbitrating problems when possible and prosecuting violations when necessary," according to the New York Times.
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Miami-based 2 Live Crew got its start in the mid-1980s, but became well known in the 1990s for its legal battle over the group's album "As Nasty As They Wanna Be." That's when an obscenity lawsuit highlighting the record's raunchiness went all the way to the Supreme Court.
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Rey Anthony and her 1960 sexual autobiography, The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity—a revolutionary and extremely controversial volume that brought the author into contact with the Mafia and became the only book to be banned by the US Supreme Court, throwing its publisher Ralph Ginzburg into jail on obscenity charges.
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Although just one of the three obscenity charges, including his publication of classy erotic magazine Eros, the Handbook was brought to the center of the case thanks to a very prudish judge, who was quick to point out that Serett's description of cunnilingus fell under the legal definition of sodomy.
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An older blind man, escorted by other marchers, wore a sign around his neck that read, "We don't need your paper towels," followed by an obscenity — a reference to President Trump tossing rolls of paper towels to storm victims at a relief center when he visited the island in October.
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In a memorable comic turn on Saturday night, President Trump performed an impression of himself if he had been a conventional, strait-laced head of state; he hurled an obscenity at Chuck Todd, the host of "Meet the Press"; and he boasted that he knew what Oprah Winfrey's weakness was.
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But just a few hours after the first reports of what Mr. Trump had said, Rich Lowry, of the conservative magazine National Review, said on CNN that he had been told the word was in fact "shithouse," although people heard it differently because the other obscenity is more commonly used.
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But the words we truly want to say about the obscenity of gun violence, and the cowardice and cynicism of politicians, and the misplaced pity of the American public, their self-absorbed refusal to put their clickers down, get off their couches and — it all turns into a rant so quickly.
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Bentley Kassal, a former New York lawyer and judge whose clients and cases mirrored the urgencies of the court system over nearly 21986 years — from the trial of Lenny Bruce for obscenity to that of Bernard Goetz for subway vigilantism to the city's liability for sheltering the homeless — died on Dec.
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" Minutes later, five more Democratic members of Congress from Virginia demanded that Mr. Fairfax step down from the job, citing a series of accusatory public statements and an NBC News report that Mr. Fairfax used a harsh obscenity to describe one of the women who accused him of sexual assault. "Lt.
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