rajneesh ji
Have been pondering your question for some time. Here is the most recent information I could find about it.
One example of a state law is not enforced for three reasons. It (1) is vague and therefore cannot really hit hard at the places on the net where most obscenity occurs, for example chat rooms. (2) it would apply equally to adults as to children and therefore has a lot of opposition. (3) It would regulate the Internet and not achieve its purpose which is to regulate obscenity.
Therefore the US government is unlikely to act forcefully -- as they would be struck down under the federal laws and US Constitution.
Article follows. It is not much I know. I will keep investigating this.
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http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/hard-talk/29194-should-supreme-court-form-obscenity-rules.html
Group: Online obscenity law too vague
By James Nash THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Publication: The Columbus Dispatch (Ohio)
Date:
Wednesday, October 21 2009
A state law designed to protect children from "obscene or harmful" material on the Internet is vague enough that it tramples on the rights of adults to view the same content, a trade group of booksellers argued to the Ohio Supreme Court yesterday.
The 2002 law, which has never been enforced,<!--abembed--> makes it a crime to knowingly send adult material over the Internet to children.The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression says the law doesn't account for ever-evolving ways of communicating online, such as chat rooms, bulk e-mail distribution lists, instant messaging and password-protected Web sites.
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Attorney General Richard Cordray's office says the law is clear enough. For someone to be prosecuted for a violation, he or she must knowingly send obscene or harmful material directly to people younger than 18, Ohio Solicitor General Benjamin C. Mizer said.
"This law is about targeting sexual predators," he said. "This law is not about wholesale regulation of the Internet."
