Obscenity Statutes
Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the Heins (2009) and Kinsley (2013) articles.
Technological advancements associated with the Internet and global economics were paralleled by new avenues for marketing pornography along with a variety of obscene materials. No longer do people need to venture forth to visit adult bookstores or sex shops. Availability of the desired commodity is now as easy as accessing one’s computing device. However, as access to sordid material is made decidedly easier, efforts to combat the dissemination of such material also becomes more fervent as pedophiles and human traffickers have turned to the Internet to target children and young people.
For your initial post, you must carefully review the required articles and examine at least two ways legal authorities have attempted to combat online pornography and obscenity. Your initial post must address the following points:
Identify a minimum of two specific crimes that were the targets of law enforcement crime-fighting efforts.
Examine the methods employed by creators of online pornography and obscenity to produce materials in a variety of media for easier access to members of the general public.
Examine the strategies utilized by law enforcement to combat pornography and obscenity.
Analyze the legal issues that arise from attempts by authorities to utilize community standards in their efforts to fight pornography and obscenity.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03064220802712191
Article
Heins, M. (2009). Not in my backyard (Links to an external site.). Index on Censorship, 38(1), 96-103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03064220802712191
The full-text version of this article is available through the EBSCOhost database in the University of Arizona Global Campus Library. This article provides legal and legislative background on various attempts by authorities to curb online obscenity. It will assist you in the development of this week’s discussion post.
Kinsley, J. M. (2013). Sexual privacy in the internet age: How substantive due process protects online obscenity (Links to an external site.). Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, 16(1), 103- 131. Retrieved from http://www.jetlaw.org/
