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Federal Anti-Obscenity Program Comes Up Limp

kotj.mf writes "The New York Times reports that the Federally funded anti-Web pornography campaign run by Morality in Media, a conservative religious group, has yet to result a single prosecution for obscenity, despite having generated more than 67,000 citizen complaints. The group, better known for its campaign to have Cosmopolitan removed from supermarket checkout stands, is pushing the Justice Department to more aggressively pursue cases against what it sees as 'a prime threat to society, the growth on the Internet of sexual material involving consenting adults.'"

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  1. Federal Anti-Obscenity Program ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great idea, it is about time they did something about those religions spreading filth.

    oh.. wait.

  2. Anti-obesity laws by ATestR · · Score: 3, Funny

    At first glance, my brain interpreted this headline as "Federal Anti-Obesity Program..." Whew! For a second there I thought that the government was going to come after us for eating too many twinkies during those late night coding sessions.

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  3. Re:Federally Funded?? by Dolphinzilla · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just can't believe that there is a good paying job out surfing porn sites - and to think I have been doing it for free for years

  4. USA & Australia by Frankie70 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Long back, people from England emigrated to Australia &
    the USA. All the convicts were sent to Australia. All the
    religious kooks were sent to the USA.

    Most Australians are thankful for this luck of fate.

    1. Re:USA & Australia by lysse · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well, it does explain John Howard.

    2. Re:USA & Australia by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 2, Funny

      "so what is milton saying here? that its more fun to be bad than good?"

      -stolen

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  5. Re:So much idiocy, so little time... by Donniedarkness · · Score: 2, Funny
    Please don't insult the "special" people like that.

    Mr. Peters is far beyond that.

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  6. Re:So much idiocy, so little time... by howlingmadhowie · · Score: 4, Funny

    not quite. i think it has to be a mob of angry men come to gang-bang your male guests. which sort of reminds me of a falcon film i saw while researching material for morality in media.

  7. Re:Every country has their idiots apparently by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    These people are priests. Maybe the emphasis should be like this:
    sexual material involving consenting ADULTS

  8. On /. we worry about non-consentual abstinence. by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think we deserve a goverment grant to fight this non-consentual abstinence among the community! At the minimum community service sentences to those who continue this harmfull practice against innocent slashdotters!

    Although I am willing to settle for that list of porn sites. Could they rank them so I don't waste too much time to get too the good stuff?

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  9. My porn collection... by zugurudumba · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... they'll have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands.

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  10. Re:You were shoved headfirst through sombody's vag by CosmeticLobotamy · · Score: 3, Funny

    While I'm not a supporter of the anti-obscenity crowd, the difference is fairly clear. There is no natural, overwhelmingly powerful drive to murder every hot girl that will let you.

  11. Re:So much idiocy, so little time... by shivamib · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whoa. Did you say virgin daughters???

  12. The really interesting part by kilodelta · · Score: 2, Funny

    What is really interesting about the religious fundamentalists is that they want to wind the clock back to sometime around 2 BCE.

    Of course there was illicit sex going on back then, but because the printing press hadn't yet been invented it was a real bitch to to flip book style porn on stone tablets.

  13. Re:I think.... by datadigger · · Score: 2, Funny

    You've been avoiding Bushes for too long. They're all shaved nowadays.

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