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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] But to seriously answer Liam's question, the U.S., like, I would imagine, most states, has laws against obscenity, which usually just sit there being quietly ignored, because no one actually knows, in a legal sense, what "obscenity" is, if it is in fact anything. Every now and then enterprising politicians will either A.) engage in a much needed defense of the nation's moral fiber by cracking down on naughty things or B.) pick on naughty things in order to pander to the anti-naughty voters, depending upon your point of view. I'd say the likeliest outcomes are 1.) nothing, because this is just an attempt to shore up the segments of the evangelical Christian block, who according to some polls are beginning to wonder whether endless war and utter domestic incompetance are really all that much fun, or 2.) a new set of rules about how many of one kind of organ can be seen close to another kind, and the like. Utah has had a "porn czar" for some time now. My search for news stories about it didn't work out how I had planned, though. However, I think I am going to open a Cafepress store selling "porn czar" labeled clothing, to appeal to the kids who want the hip cachet of pornographic-themed couture and are also totally into Russian history. I'm thinking a photoshopped image of Stalin relaxing poolside while a pair of chesty bikini-clad ladies lean suggestively over him. (In case any of you graphic designers want to get in on the ground floor here. . .) On a related note, if you're interested in Russian pornography designed to discredit the Ukrainian Orange Revolution, check this out: <a href="http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/magazines/AllWoman/html/20050904T190000-0500_87649_OBS_PREMIER_PORN_.asp">Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko last Friday brushed aside news of a pornographic film due to be shot in Russia soon whose main characters are based on her and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili.</a> Of course, that's ex-Prime Minister now, though not because of this. And there's a Ukrainian response film in the works. <a href="http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/sterling/index.blog?entry_id=1197742">A whole bunch of stuff about it.</a> And as long as I'm scavaging Bruce Sterling's blog: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/05/smut_censoring_trojan/">'Islamic Trojan' disrupts smut surfing</a> [/QB][/QUOTE]
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