10-21-2004, 02:23 PM
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Bon temps!
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: down yonder
Posts: 14,194
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"Today's sentences should put those in the hardcore pornography business on notice that there will be a price to pay for violating our obscenity and tax laws"
Ashcroft's Porn Wars Come to Texas
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Ashcroft fully intends to prosecute online porn purveyors under the obscenity laws, and is seeking severe penalties. A second term for Bush will only embolden him further.
His current test case is against Rob Zicari and Janet Romano of Extreme Associates, an outfit that specializes in heavy-duty porn. After being found not guilty according to the defendants' local community standards, the pair came under fire from Ashcroft for distributing porn to other communities via the Internet. The US is prosecuting them in Pennsylvania, where 'community standards' are likely to be less tolerant. The defendants face up to 50 years in prison if convicted on all counts. If Ashcroft succeeds in getting a severe sentence in this case, it will undoubtedly send a chilling message to others in the online porn trade. And the precedent of allowing DoJ to prosecute Internet obscenity cases in the jurisdiction of its choice will lead to scores of other criminal cases.
Will the US election matter to the IT sector?
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President Bush?s 2005 budget provides increases of $13.8 million to fight crimes against children and obscenity, lumping the two together both in funding and policy. The Department of Justice describes "efforts to help state and local law enforcement protect our communities from crime, pornography, and obscenity with several key initiatives to protect our children from pornography and exploitation; stop Internet crime against children; and prosecute adult obscenity offenses."
The Strip Club Vote
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