Missed It: Judge Issues Injunction Against Problematic Massachusetts Internet Obscenity Law

According to reports in regional media and at the CBLDF news blog, US District Judge Rya W. Zobal granted an injunction against a broadly-defined Internet obscenity law that was signed into law last June. The opponents of the law generally thought it granted far too wide a definition as to what constitutes obscenity by linking it to material potentially harmful to minors. The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund was one of several organizations that opposed the law. Internet obscenity laws can be difficult to oppose politically because of the signifying elements involved and because there is a legitimate need to update the laws through which police can go after actual obscenity, factors that may also lead to overreaching, tossed-together legislation.
 
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