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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. 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

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

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

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

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