And the state of Tennessee criminalized publishers that provide " obscene" materials to public schools.
田纳西州将向公立学校提供“淫秽”材料的出版商定为是刑事犯罪。
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The high court justices found that the First Amendment does not automatically protect obscene materials.
高等法院法官发现,第一修正案并不会主动保护淫秽材料。
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It just forbids the sending of obscene materials through the mail.
Newitz:它只是禁止通过邮件发送淫秽材料。
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Both the Fifth Circuit ruling and the original Texas decision cited a law from 1873 called the Comstock Act, which forbids the mailing of " obscene, lewd or lascivious " materials.
An obscenity is any utterance or act that strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time. It is derived from the Latin obscaena (offstage) a cognate of the Ancient Greek root skene, because some potentially offensive content, such as murder or sex, was depicted offstage in classical drama. The word can be used to indicate a strong moral repugnance, in expressions such as "obscene profits" or "the obscenity of war".