Supreme Court in the modern age

[erinlefey]

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They just had to deal with "crush videos".

If you don't know what they are...I envy you. I now know. (I'll define it in the comments if you really want to know.) And I have never come across a concept that literally made my stomach spasm and attempt to vomit based on the IDEA. I initially said that I hate to be a member of the human race now. I've rethought that. People into that are not human. Y'all know that I'm a live-and-let-live, your-kink-is-OK kind of girl. But if I find someone who thinks such things are nifty, I'm rebooting them into the next reincarnation.

Comment away. But don't joke. My sense of humor is absent on this subject.

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[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

According to a member of Congress who intends to sponsor a replacement bill, the law forbade the interstate sale of depictions in which “a living animal is intentionally maimed, mutilated, tortured, wounded, or killed, if such conduct is illegal under Federal law or the law of the State in which the creation, sale, or possession takes place.”

The key there is "if such conduct is illegal." I've seen people claim this video made it illegal to make movies about hunting. I don't see how such broad interpretations stand up. I'm not aware of any laws against kitten juggling. Blogging about bull fights -- maybe, "depictions" is a bit problematic, though if this law has only been enforced once since it was passed, it's hard to argue it opened the floodgates for suppression of free speech.