Industry ruling is a "mixed blessing"

[LAJ]

Please check out Kathee Brewer's excellent coverage of the recent obscenity ruling:

SAN FRANCISCO – An appellate court’s Wednesday ruling that will send two convicted spammers to jail also may have set an important precedent in obscenity law. By opining “local community standards” are meaningless where electronic communication is concerned, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has set the stage for defining a national standard of decency for application to the internet.

More:

http://www.ynot.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=news_article&sid=51031&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

[gonzo]

Please check out Kathee Brewer's excellent coverage of the recent obscenity ruling:

SAN FRANCISCO – An appellate court’s Wednesday ruling that will send two convicted spammers to jail also may have set an important precedent in obscenity law. By opining “local community standards” are meaningless where electronic communication is concerned, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has set the stage for defining a national standard of decency for application to the internet.

More:

http://www.ynot.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=news_article&sid=51031&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

AS I posted on Souths board...

Wonder if Diamond Jim thinks the juice was worth the squeeze now?

[EmporerEJ]

sticky wicket indeed.

[TheEnforcer]

This may fall under the "be careful what you wish for" category. The idea of a national standard worries me tremendously because it will much more likely be FAR more restrictive than I would like to see. There will be FAR more pressure for a very vanilla version of what obscenity is than what our side of the business would like to see.