"free speech" tag (sorted by SiNergy)

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a friend-of-the-court brief today urging a federal court judge to block two criminal statutes that unconstitutionally limit the free expression of millions of adults who use the Internet and other electronic forms of communication, bringing the threat of criminal sanctions for private, lawful speech.

The American Civil Liberties Union, long an ally of the adult industry as far as First Amendment issues are concerned, has filed an amicus ("friend of the court") brief in Free Speech Coalition's bid to overturn 18 U.S.C. §§2257 and 2257A, the federal recordkeeping and labeling laws.

Rhett Pardon writes a disconcerting development on how government is implementing control over online porn. According to a recently introduced bill -- namely HR 4059 -- to Congress, it states that porn site owners and even payment service providers are liable for not providing age verification systems into their sites.

A Florida rapper is charged with "corruption by threat of a public servant," an has received a 2 year prison sentence for the lyrics in his rap song "Kill Me a Cop,". I should mention this song was uploaded on Myspace for crying out loud, and that's were the Lakeland Gang task force heard it.

In adult star news Black and Borden of Extreme Associates pled guilty in court and have been blessed with a sentence of one year and one day in prison. They could be out on parole as soon as 10 months. Neither of these two or their corporation will have to pay any fines.

Amazing since their fellow obscenity trial peers ended like this:

I remember hearing about the Megan Meier suicide and thinking what the fuck was wrong with the grown woman who cyberbullied the 13 year old girl to the point she felt she had to kill herself! Well now Democrats want to step in and make sure this doesn’t happen to anyone else by purposing The Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act.

Australia's government seems intent on establishing national internet filters despite public outcry against the move and the fact that their last attempt at establishing national internet censorship was cracked by a teenager in a matter of days.

Loren Jay Adams, owner of Hard2Find Videos, was sentenced to 33 months in prison. The crime- violating federal obscenity laws by transporting obscene material through the U.S. mail system. Adams will also be required to serve 3 years probation, forfeit his domain and give up all copies of the offensive movie.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that a man who offered to pay two adults to make a porn movie is not guilty of prostitution. The reason- there was no evidence that he was satisfying his own sexual pleasure. The act of making a porno is protected as free speech under the state’s constitution, but their vague prostitution law seems to cause issues for these protected activities.

Given that Paul Little was found guilty of obscenity charges stemming from the distribution of pornographic DVDs through the mail, his sentencing shows that Judge Susan G. Bucklew applied fines and jail time 'within the guidelines' of federal sentencing protocol.