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Georgelementalyesterday at 9:43 PM3 repliesview on HN

> Producing, selling, and consuming pornography are matters of protected sexual speech so long nothing illegal and criminal occur.

This is not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test


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rayinertoday at 12:22 AM

“Protected sexual speech” is such a bizarre phrase. Nobody who wrote the first amendment envisioned that. How can you say the First Amendment prohibits a democratically elected legislature from banning something that was never envisioned as being protected by the First Amendment by the people who wrote it? It makes no sense. Surely the views of either the writers of the first amendment of the past, or the democratically elected legislature in the present, must prevail.

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metalcrowyesterday at 11:06 PM

This is a good point. A lot of people don't realize online pornography is arguably federally illegal, just totally unenforced.

testing22321yesterday at 11:36 PM

Freedom often isn’t.