[Publib] Restricting Access to Minors

[Scott Bonner]

"Why is there a different standard for visual versus print mediums?"

I don't know -- for all the reasons you stated and more.  The supreme court
has established this different standard for print vs. visual materials in
first amendment law, applying stricter protections for print materials and
opening more latitude to ban visual "obscenity" (a word notoriously
ill-defined by the Court, from at least Roth vs. United states [1957]).
Seems some speech is more free than other speech.

-- Scott
 
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-
> bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Chris Ely
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 2:20 PM
> To: publib at webjunction.org
> Subject: RE: [Publib] Restricting Access to Minors
> 
> Marie Soucie wrote:
> >I'm one of those parents that's a lot more strict with my son's
> >movies than I am with his books. Books use our own mental imagery.
> >Many of the PG-13 movies are, in my opinion, smut not worth spending
> >$7 or more to see.
> 
> I'm a believer in Sturgeon's law (generally quoted as "Ninety percent
> of everything is crap"), so I'm just as likely to get a crappy $7
> paperback as I am to pay $7 and see a crappy movie.
> 
> Why is there a different standard for visual versus print mediums? Is
> it simply because we can glance at a visual medium and form an
> opinion about the overall content, while we don't judge a book by its
> cover and have to actually engage the full brain and take time to
> read it? While I'm all for kids reading anything as long as they're
> reading, I can't quite grasp why some don't blink over them reading
> material far over their head, but watching a movie or reading a manga
> with the same or similar concepts is just a no go.
> 
> Chris Ely
> 
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> "Pathetic human race. Arranging their knowledge by category just made
> it easier to absorb. Dewey, you fool, your decimal system has played
> right into my hands." Futurama
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