Neither ApolloMedia nor other civil liberties groups have challenged the obscenity ban. The entire theoretical underpinning of the Court of Appeals decision was wrong. In fact, the premise of the secondary-effects doctrine applied in this case is so fundamentally flawed in this context that it's ridiculous. ApolloMedia and its lawyers are not deliberately urging people to use nasty language. They're encouraging people to be very forceful in their defense of freedom.
Typical topics range from gays in the military to the environment.
Fein, who immigrated to the United States from South Africa, said he was appalled when he read the text of the Communications Decency Act after its passage last year and stumbled across the provision. When I left South Africa, I could be imprisoned for quoting Nelson Mandela. Part of my reason for becoming an American was to enjoy the freedoms of the First Amendment. All Rights Reserved.