Articles for tag: First Amendment, Internet Censorship, Obscenity

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Obscenity, Internet Censorship and the First Amendment

The First Amendment ensures freedom of speech and of the press, expressions necessary to a democratic society, and the Internet has the potential to give many people in any society an open forum to voice their concerns and to reach a large audience. Pornography and other graphic materials existed before the Internet, but the technology’s ...

How to Pull Off a Famous Senior Prank

Ahh… the senior prank. The time-honored tradition of doing something stupid in the last few weeks of your high school career. But a senior prank, no matter how sweet, isn’t worth much if nobody remembers it. So what can you do to make sure that your senior prank is one that will go down in ...

Obscene and Curse Words in the English Language

Who decided that a “curse” or “obscenity” was bad? Since language must be taught, words cannot be inherently wrong, yet the entire human race can identify certain words as such. The very sound of certain words being uttered appalls us, but is it only the word of the meaning which we find offensive. In English, ...

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Shilpa Shetty and Richard Gere Called to Account by Indian Law

Bollywood is the home of the burgeoning film industry in India. Not to be confused with Hollywood, Bollywood develops its own movies, with actors and actresses of their own. The standards of decency and morality are also vastly different. This fact seems to have been lost on Richard Gere when he publicly kissed Bollywood phenom ...