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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Probably belongs on politics, but whatever. This is a disturbing movement:
I've read statistics that suggest that a third of all hotel check-outs in the United States have porn charges on the bill.
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Have these people no respect for the lonely and bored business traveller, stuck in a dull town with no GAs and no titty bars?
At a guess, this is in part a response to the defense tactic in obscenity cases. Obscenity is defined based on community standards, and prosecutors pick their jurisdiction thinking that the standards in a particular community are more likely to cast porn as "obscene." I believe, but am not certain, that decisions regarding internet porn essentially give any county jurisdiction to bring such charges (assuming they can find and bring in the defendant).
If you were a prosecutor trying to prove a porn movie obscene -- that it was beyond community standards of mere porn -- you'd probably choose to bring that claim in some community other than, say, San Francisco or NY or Vegas.
But then some defense lawyers recognized that, in pretty much any city with a chain hotel, people were watching all kinds of porn. And it was being purveyed by some of the biggest companies in the US - the cable and hotel companies involved. And when you can show that 7000 people watched Gang-Bang Zombies in your community last month, the pictures of Not Me licking whipped cream off of ppnyc's breasts that I was selling suddenly seem not so bad. Nauseating, yes, but obscene, no.
So now they want to crack down on the hotels, too. Fuckers.
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