Via MotherJones: Pensacola residents Clinton Raymond McCowen and Kevin Patrick Stevens, producers of a very NSFW website last week faced a judge in an obscenity and racketeering trial for their work. The interesting thing? The defense planned to use Google search trends to demonstrate community standards.
“Time and time again you’ll have jurors sitting on a [...]
Posted July 7, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: community standards, Google Trends, obscenity, porn, search history, search logs, trial. Be the first one.
Quite a while ago now, stepinrazor asked people to do some self-censorhip in a post in the Flickr Ideas forum. FlyButtafly quickly joined the discussion, noting that she’d encountered some material she found offensive in pictures from other Flickr members: “as I’m going through the pictures, one shows up of a protestor holding a sign [...]
Posted August 1, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: Anthony Comstock, argument, Charles Keating, civil liberties, community standards, cultural imperialism, first amendment, flickr, free speech, freedom, J. Edgar Hoover, may offend, moral superiority, obscenity, porn, pornography. 6 Comments.
