Word: explicitness
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...Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in a California case upholding a 1977 law banning distribution of child pornography, two years after an appeals court ruled the ban unconstitutional. The decision reinstated a Los Angeles porn shop owner's conviction for distributing sexually-explicit videotapes made by porn star Traci Lords when she was 15. Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented on the central issue, claiming the law cannot effectively single out those who "knowingly" make, distribute or receive depictions of minors engaged in sexually-explicit conduct...
...problem, from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, university's point of view, was not that Rimm had found sexually explicit content on the computer networks; there is sex in every medium, from comic books to videotapes. Nor was it even that he had found some of it on CMU's own computers; every university connected to the Internet is a conduit, however unwitting, for gigabytes of salacious words and pictures. The immediate issue was that Rimm had brought it to the administration's attention, pointing out that some of the images on CMU's machines -- digitized pictures of men and women having...
...Arms, vice president of CMU's computing services department, spent an hour reviewing the questionable material "with the law of Pennsylvania in one hand and a mouse in the other" and decided that the university was in deep trouble. It is illegal in the state to knowingly distribute sexually explicit material to anyone under the age of 18 -- as many freshmen are -- or to distribute obscene material at all, no matter what the consumer's age. Fearing that the university would be open to prosecution -- and the worst kind of publicity -- CMU's academic council hurriedly voted to shut down...
...added that removing an official elected by the people was "contrary to the way our democracy works," so it should only be done based on an explicit...
...clear. "Ostensibly," my ass! In response to the legitimate and expressed concern of the chairs of Philippine Forum, Derek made explicit the intent of his original letter. This intention was, to repeat, to show that David Lat's editorial "Those Happy Homos" was hypocritical in light of Lat's support for Filipino cultural pride. Derek made a public apology for any misunderstanding that may have occurred when readers of his letter failed to make the connection between his ironic language and the real opinions of Lat. He did so while maintaining the integrity of his original point--Lat's inconsistency...