Television Violence: Hearing of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, May 18, 1999

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Page 35 - that the First Amendment does "not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action. >183
Page 93 - as works which, taken as a whole, appeal to the prurient interest in sex, which portray sexual conduct in a patently offensive way, and which, taken as a whole, do not have serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. Miller v. California, 413 US 15, 24, 37 L. Ed. 2d 419, 93 S. Ct. 2607 (1973).
Page 110 - above all else, the First Amendment means that government has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content." Police Dep't of Chicago v. Mosley, 408 US 92, 95, 33 L. Ed. 2d 212, 92 S. Ct. 2286 (1972).
Page 102 - it is the right of the viewers and listeners, not the right of the broadcasters, which is paramount." Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC, 395 US 367, 390, 23 L. Ed. 2d 371, 89 S. Ct. 1794
Page 111 - (1925) (striking state law requiring children to attend public schools as "interfering with the liberty of parents and guardians to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control"); Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 US 390, 401,
Page 103 - If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable." Texas v. Johnson, 491 US 397, 414, 105 L. Ed. 2d 342, 109 S. Ct. 2533 (1989).
Page 12 - [that is] of such slight social value as a step to truth that any benefit that may be derived from [it] is clearly outweighed by the social interest in order and morality,
Page 33 - any book, pamphlet, magazine, newspaper or other printed paper devoted to the publication, and principally made up of criminal news, police reports, or accounts of criminal deeds, or pictures, or stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or crime.
Page 14 - whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest.
Page 34 - (1) the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; (2) the work depicts sexual conduct in a

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