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| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Fuck the US Supreme Court. Material that objectifies children in a sexual manner should not exist. It is a misconception that all child sexual abuse occurs because the perpetrator is only attracted to children. If paedophiles need something to jerk to then they've got their imaginations. Sexualisation of children is one of the strongest social taboos, and it is not a taboo for some arbitrary prudishness, but because it's extremely harmful to the victims. Society should uphold and enforce this taboo from top to bottom, and American pretensions of "freedom" can get fucked. |
Whatever. I am actually a strong advocate for limits on free speech, but obscenity is one of the places where I have serious qualms about the limits because so much of it can come down to religious views, which is violations of another tenant of the US.
My dad actually won a supreme court case in the 80s about obscenity and free speech, that actually placed limits on free speech, but it was specifically related to schools and the control of speech in public schools. The 1st amendment protects against the government censoring people outside of the government, but it doesn't protect people from being censored in the government. It set an interesting precedent for control of medium cases that persists to this day (and actually has been reinforced a number of times).
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