Playboy, along with several other adult magazines, is banned in India under its obscenity laws.
U.S. courts have used that standard through the years in determining what constitutes obscenity.
Yet the FCC has 17 lawyers plus a staff of 16 poring over obscenity and indecency complaints.
Typically, it is limited by prohibitions against libel, defamation, obscenity, judicial or parliamentary privilege and the like.
Fox, where the broadcast television companies are seeking to be freed from obscenity rules that apply only to them.
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Courts have refused to treat violent content as they would sexual material, which government can restrict under longstanding obscenity doctrines.
He actually tried to persuade policemen to bring a prosecution against Sir Stanley Spencer, a fellow academician, under Britain's obscenity laws.
Its broadcast prompted an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons, proposed by a group of Conservative MPS, entitled Television Obscenity.
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American websites enjoy broad freedom but most users support policies that forbid hate speech or obscenity, even when these are not illegal.
The turning point may have come after a Chicago policeman, testifying in an obscenity trial, was asked how a movie made him feel.
Anything that mitigates the obscenity of so rich a country leaving so many people without coverage will be a change for the better.
Justice Clarence Thomas, dissenting, said the original understanding of the First Amendment would include not just prohibitions against obscenity, but children disregarding their parents.
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Such was the Briton's annoyance with the turnaround in fortunes that he received a second code violation in two days for an audible obscenity.
He apologizes for using an obscenity, and proceeds to talk, in a serious tone now, about providing his extended family member with new tires like mine.
For example, on June 21st the military-appointed governor of Pakistan's North West Frontier ordered the province's cable television networks to be shut at the behest of Islamic clerics, who said they promoted obscenity.
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If convicted of these charges, Richards and Justice face up to seven years in federal prison on each of the five animal crush charges and up to five years on each of the two obscenity charges.
Disliking constraints of any kind except those she imposed upon herself, she refused to sign a loyalty pledge when she was appointed to a teaching post at Idyllwild arts school and, in 1990, took the National Endowment for the Arts to court when it asked her to accept a no-obscenity clause in return for a grant.
They also include Matthew McConaughey, who in the small role of a talent agent obsessed with providing TiVo to his client, all but walks off with the picture, and an uncredited, wholly unrecognizable Tom Cruise, playing a large, bald, obscenity-spewing studio head who in the privacy of his very large office shows himself to be lord of the funk.
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