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Old Fri Nov 13, 2009, 08:19pm
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Pornography And Obscenity, I Know Them When I See Them ...

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Originally Posted by just another ref View Post
Kinda like pornography: can't tell you what it is, but I know it when I see it.
You mean "obscenity"? Got any examples for us to check out?

In 1964, US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously opined in an obscenity case that it was exceeding difficult to define obscenity, “but I know it when I see it.”
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