Court rules on Internet obscenity standards

dark_requiem writes: The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that online content can be judged by the standards of the strictest community which is able to access it. The court upheld the conviction of pornography producer Paul F. Little, aka Max Hardcore, for violating obscenity laws in Tampa, despite the fact that the "obscene" material in question was produced and sold in California. From the article:

The Atlanta-based court rejected arguments by Little's attorneys that applying a local community standard to the Internet violates the First Amendment because doing so means material can be judged according to the standards of the strictest communities. In other words, the materials might be legal where they were produced and almost everywhere else. But if they violate the standards of one community, they are illegal in that community and the producers may be convicted of a crime.