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Article #21Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups
From: Bob Daniel
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 00:00
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In article <4sorq9$ehj@news.interlog.com>, alchemy@interlog.com wrote: > horton@icons.net (John R. Shaw) wrote: > > >How can obscenity ever be defined in a way that is more than relative > >and subject to personal interpretation and local 'community > >standards'. > > Mr. Shaw's point regarding changing community standards is irrelevent > to the discussion of whether obscenity can be well defined.[...] > An article is obscene if its content can be proven to be injurious to > the fabric of society. The depiction of explicit sexual conduct is > never obscene unless it is degrading, dehumanizing or imbued with violence. I don't know, there's still some room for interpretation here. I knew a woman once who felt that oral sex was "degrading" and "dehumanizing". I said I didn't mind, I'd do it anyway.... B-) -- Bob Daniel rgd@inforamp.net Toronto, Canada http://www.inforamp.net/~rgd
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11544f,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid11544f,public X-Google-Thread: 12c2cc,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid12c2cc,public X-Google-Thread: fb1ea,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1ea,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public X-Google-Thread: 1046d5,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid1046d5,public X-Google-Thread: 115882,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid115882,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public X-Google-Thread: 13d6bc,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid13d6bc,public From: rgd@inforamp.net (Bob Daniel) Subject: Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups Date: 1996/07/19 Message-ID: <rgd-1907961933450001@ts24-06.tor.istar.ca> X-Deja-AN: 168923589 distribution: inet references: <4rmsbp$5ur@insight.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <4shftu$jpr@news.inforamp.net> <DuoAwo.CrB@ferret.ocunix.on.ca> <4siuqa$qa@news.inforamp.net> <DupvDx.CwA@ferret.ocunix.on.ca> <31ede7d6.1190911@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> <4smad1$488@news.interlog.com> <31ef897d.46331288@news.icons.net> <4sorq9$ehj@news.interlog.com> organization: iSTAR Internet Inc. newsgroups: inforamp.general,inforamp.support,alt.censorship,comp.org.eff.talk,can.legal,can.infohighway,tor.general,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,alt.society.civil-liberty,ont.general