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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Obscenity (Law)"”.
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Media convergence, obscenity law and the Internet
… that makes the Internet difficult to regulate. Laws that were proposed to provide some form of legal control to the access of online content have been met with strong opposition. This thesis will discuss the elements of media convergence and the Internet, difficulties in creating laws for a …
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What Are We Protecting Here? The Cultural Construction of Gender in Obscenity Law
… but because it writes out of United States law, in relation to obscenity, the use of protectionist discourse as a reason to censor sexually explicit materials. After Roth as a society, we could not use the protection of women as a reason to censor texts. Culturally, this helped empower women …
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Crossing the Line: Censorship, Borders, and the Queer Poetics of Disclosure in English-Canadian Writing, 1967-2000
… (2000) upheld the agency’s power to exclude obscenity, the Court found Customs discriminatory in their preemptive seizures of LGBTTQ material. Extrapolating from this case of the state’s failure to sufficiently ‘read’ queer sex at the border, this dissertation moves beyond studies of how …
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Judicial Enforcers? Exploring Lower Federal Court Compliance in Regulating the Obscene
… of federal circuit and district court judges in obscenity cases during a four-decade period (1957-1998). The research presented here finds the influence of higher court precedent to correspond in part with the conception of a judicial hierarchy. An analysis of citations of Supreme Court precedent …