They didn't go through any filter whatsoever. And often, every now and then, they assign a lawyer to watch the show and give us notes. And they were constantly missing the incredibly obscene thing we were doing and giving us notes about pronunciation of something completely unrelated or -- and so there's not a lot that I couldn't do.I think it's more about the tone. I think the tone might change a little bit now. Because, like I say, I've been through this
Wasn't it worth an all-out effort to achieve a reduction of even half of one degree? Wasn't it obscene to be talking about birds when children in Bangladesh were threatened? Yes, the premise of my essay was that we have an ethical responsibility to other species as well as to our own, but what if that premise was false?
Now, unfortunately, my name is German and it's spelled K-O-C-H. And people are prone to mispronounce that, sometimes in an obscene way. So somebody looked at it and said, Jim, you can't call it that.
Because I got offered a role in Lion King and I turned it down because I got kicked out of a Disney park once for wearing an obscene t-shirt. All is forgiven, right?
you what obscenity is. Something is obscene if it falls within the three-part definition of obscenity established by the Supreme Court in a case called Miller v. California, 1973. In order to be obscene , that's a category of speech that has no First Amendment protection at all. In order to be obscene , it has to appeal predominantly to the prurient interest-- the interest in sexual
and he said he mentioned here it was the eight-hour day became part of the world's vocabulary four men were hanged in an obscene farcical trial yet we finally achieved the republic steel massacre on memorial day 1937 it was during a picnic that chicago cops shot
Anywhere from only a third to a half of the money that goes to prosecution ends up for the defense. So it's really obscenely low. Again, my own state just to the north of you here.
It talks about depression. And those things were considered offensive and obscene . And for that reason, that poem was censored, I believe, by the postal service that wouldn't distribute it.
is a crime? So we have a wonderful section here in the ITA called section 67, which says that if you publish, transmit, or even become a reason to publish any obscene content electronically, you're punished for three years with a fine of 5 lakh rupees. People, at times in fun, they create messages on messengers-- different messengers, chat messengers-- and they start sending obscene content.
I was like, OK. And then I spent an obscene amount of money on a ticket. It was like right after they opened.
They haven't seen him in two months and they leave food outside of his or her door and they're shutting down the government. The same way there is pornography that's obscene , but maybe we have to have it to have-- don't buy it.
Alton Brown: I, like Good Eats, I never paid attention to fans. I mean it was we were making some really obscene .
The government hardly prosecutes any obscenity cases anymore. They're hard core, bestiality rape scenes and violent videos and stuff. They rarely trouble with obscene cases. And Clinton Fein clearly wasn't putting anything obscene online. Well, the government's new definition of the annoy law was ridiculous. Obscenity already was prohibited in any medium of communication, so the government's interpretation would render the law meaningless.
Similar thoughts had no doubt wondered to the mind of the rest of us, but we were wary of articulating them. All night, I kept vigil when that obscene queue of holy warriors snaked its way to the door of the tent.
Somebody has created a fake account and sharing and posting my personal content. And this is a cyber crime in my country-- whether it is posting obscene content or private content online. And the first line, which is a very popular line with every victim who's calling me, can't tell it to my parents.
There is a film director named Terry Zwigoff, and his first movie was called "Crumb." And it was about the comics artist R. Crumb, one of the most scabrous and obscene and hilarious and adventurous comics artists that the United States has produced in the last century.
Because just when it was clear that we were out of harm's way-- though I'm not telling you the whole story. I'm leaving out firemen and ambulances and a line of tornadoes too obscene to talk about-- I felt something like rage as we waited to be transported by bus by members of the National Guard.
And third, it has to lack serious political, scientific, literary, or artistic value. All three things have to be true in order for the material to be obscene . It's a very small category of outlawed speech. The first two, none of this makes any sense. But the first two things, that has to appeal to the prurient interest, it has to turn you on, one professor has said. The second thing
cotton candy backdrops. I would show obscene work here but it didn't see merited relative to the need for the example. The cumulative effect of doodles, neon signs, and a wax leg
It's $95. It's obscenely expensive, but it really works.
material, saying that they are promoting homosexuality and they are doing obscene things.
They were not impressed-- the juries-- because at midnight, it's a happy experience. At 10:00 AM in a courtroom, it is obscene when you watch the movie. It just depends where you're seeing it.
You can be presented with faces, and you see a statement like he made an obscene gesture to an old lady, and obviously, you're thinking-- well, you're not even thinking.
There's lots of words that relate to copulation or to bodily functions that are not obscene , right?
columnist over there. And I wrote him a really ridiculously obscene email at the end of the evening, thanking him.
lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent communications was limited to obscene communications." Therefore, the government said since Clinton Fein wasn't in the business of putting obscene material online, the law didn't apply to him and his case should be dismissed. Lemme remind you what obscenity is.
It's melted. And what you do is you don't count it, but you add in a rather obscene amount of sugar to your melted chocolate.
sex, always have a certain force, and in every culture, they're related-- they're obscene and fraught.
This is the 1950s. And won a ruling on the side that this poem can and should be published and the government cannot censor something because someone considers it obscene . I think as time has passed, a lot of people have kind of lost track of that.
That is another major challenge for every school, and college even. Any social media you pick up, or Messenger, or you pick up a social media platform posting obscene content, making morph pictures, spreading rumors, writing bad words, it's a very common thing.
The only thing, which we need to understand today here is, how do you coordinate all these service providers, and how do you interact with them to protect the law, to punish them as per the Information Technology Act, which says that spreading any obscene content is a crime? So we have a wonderful section here in the ITA called section 67, which says that if you publish, transmit, or even become
a reason to publish any obscene content electronically, you're punished for three years with a fine of 5 lakh rupees. People, at times in fun, they create messages on messengers-- different messengers, chat messengers-- and they start sending obscene content. You are breaking the law.
Yeah. And even then, I'll find something that seems a little obscene .
The biggest reason it said, well, for one, it leads you to eat just obscene amounts of meat.
We do things now, routinely, that we would have considered obscene two decades ago.
the CDA in any way he could. So, we helped him have his day in court. Our main attack was on a provision of the CDA that it was different from the ones in ACLU case. It was an update of the old federal obscene telephone call statute. As part of the CDA, Congress made it a crime, also punishable by two years in prison to say online anything quote "obscene , lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent with intent to annoy another person."
Our main attack was on a provision of the CDA that it was different from the ones in ACLU case. It was an update of the old federal obscene telephone call statute. As part of the CDA, Congress made it a crime, also punishable by two years in prison to say online anything quote "obscene , lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent with intent to annoy another person." Clinton himself was annoyed and he wanted to annoy the politicians and prudes who egged him on. So, he launched a website called annoy.com , which he announced was
it. The government now claimed that the law didn't mean what it said. It did not, in fact, outlaw indecent communications at all. The government said the provision prohibiting quote "obscene , lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent communications was limited to obscene communications." Therefore, the government said since Clinton Fein wasn't in the business of putting obscene material online, the law didn't apply to him and his case should be dismissed. Lemme remind
Something is obscene if it falls within the three-part definition of obscenity established by the Supreme Court in a case called Miller v. California, 1973. In order to be obscene , that's a category of speech that has no First Amendment protection at all. In order to be obscene , it has to appeal predominantly to the prurient interest-- the interest in sexual arousal. Secondly, it has to be patently offensive in its depiction of sexual or excretory acts.
It doesn't make any sense. Anyway, that's what obscenity is. The government hardly prosecutes any obscenity cases anymore. They're hard core, bestiality rape scenes and violent videos and stuff. They rarely trouble with obscene cases. And Clinton Fein clearly wasn't putting anything obscene online. Well, the government's new definition of the annoy law was ridiculous. Obscenity already was prohibited in any medium
outrageous things though, was that Lee Iacocca, the CEO of Chrysler, thought the government was making obscene profits on Chrysler stock, even though the government had saved the company,
Conan O'Brien: They didn't see it. And so we just ran with it. We just -- I mean, I think about all the things we did over the years that are just completely absurd, obscene , weird. They didn't go through any filter whatsoever. And often, every now and then, they assign a lawyer to watch the show and give us notes. And they were constantly missing the incredibly
But instead of graciously conceding that the annoy provision was unconstitutional, Janet Reno's underlings came up with a shameless interpretation of the law that would rescue it. The government now claimed that the law didn't mean what it said. It did not, in fact, outlaw indecent communications at all. The government said the provision prohibiting quote "obscene , lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent communications was limited to obscene communications."
Well, the wood alone, because it’s all hand-carved, it runs across the top, around all the speakers, the wood alone was ten grand. And I thought, "That's obscene in reality of the world That's
Therefore, the government said since Clinton Fein wasn't in the business of putting obscene material online, the law didn't apply to him and his case should be dismissed. Lemme remind you what obscenity is. Something is obscene if it falls within the three-part definition of obscenity established by the Supreme Court in a case called Miller v. California, 1973. In order to be obscene ,
says it has to gross you out. It has to be patently offensive. It has to do both. It has to both turn you on and gross you out. It doesn't make any sense. Anyway, that's what obscenity is. The government hardly prosecutes any obscenity cases anymore. They're hard core, bestiality rape scenes and violent videos and stuff. They rarely trouble with obscene cases.