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Icon · 01-31-2005, 11:52 PM

this may have been posted already, I'm sure some diligent GFYer will make an observation, otherwise this article plugs Vegas a few weeks ago...

I know this is an ongoing deal......

Published on Monday, January 31, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
Revisiting the Porn Debate
by Chyng Sun

In his confirmation hearing earlier this month in Washington, attorney-general-to-be Alberto Gonzales told senators he intended to make obscenity prosecutions a focus of his tenure as the nation's chief prosecutor.

On the same day in Las Vegas, the nation's pornographers were gathering for the kickoff of the annual Adult Entertainment Expo, where they show off the material that might well make them the target of Gonzales' efforts.

Although the pornographers were a bit nervous about a conservative administration, they knew they had little to worry about; their $10 billion industry has become ever more mainstream and normalized in the past couple of decades. And when any critique does surface, the pornography industry has made effective free-speech arguments (it's not accidental that pornographers created a lobbying group called the Free Speech Coalition).

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0131-32.htm

RawAlex · 02-01-2005, 12:24 AM

FYI: Define obscenity, especially after recent judgements (extreme).

He can fight anything he wants, but like many that have gone before him, they will find their hands tied by the very laws the attempt to enforce. They all talk a good game until the get into the office, and then they come face to face with the reality of the situation - and nobody but nobody wants to be the AG that challenges obscenity up to the surpreme court and loses.

Alex

01-31-2005, 11:52 PM	#1
Icon Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The watercooler of life tripping balls with NPH Posts: 1,757	F.Y.I. Industry Peeps [LINK] this may have been posted already, I'm sure some diligent GFYer will make an observation, otherwise this article plugs Vegas a few weeks ago... I know this is an ongoing deal...... Published on Monday, January 31, 2005 by CommonDreams.org Revisiting the Porn Debate by Chyng Sun In his confirmation hearing earlier this month in Washington, attorney-general-to-be Alberto Gonzales told senators he intended to make obscenity prosecutions a focus of his tenure as the nation's chief prosecutor. On the same day in Las Vegas, the nation's pornographers were gathering for the kickoff of the annual Adult Entertainment Expo, where they show off the material that might well make them the target of Gonzales' efforts. Although the pornographers were a bit nervous about a conservative administration, they knew they had little to worry about; their $10 billion industry has become ever more mainstream and normalized in the past couple of decades. And when any critique does surface, the pornography industry has made effective free-speech arguments (it's not accidental that pornographers created a lobbying group called the Free Speech Coalition). http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0131-32.htm __________________ Icon Professional Shark Wrestler ICQ: 214 674 095 "I see Brown people"

02-01-2005, 12:24 AM	#2
RawAlex So Fucking Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: In a house. Posts: 9,465	FYI: Define obscenity, especially after recent judgements (extreme). He can fight anything he wants, but like many that have gone before him, they will find their hands tied by the very laws the attempt to enforce. They all talk a good game until the get into the office, and then they come face to face with the reality of the situation - and nobody but nobody wants to be the AG that challenges obscenity up to the surpreme court and loses. Alex