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"What's Obscene? Google Could Have an Answer."

"What's Obscene? Google Could Have an Answer." The New York Times on Tuesday will have an article that begins, "Judges and jurors who must decide whether sexually explicit material is obscene are asked to use a local yardstick: does the material violate community standards? That is often a tricky question because there is no simple, concrete way to gauge a community's tastes and values. The Internet may be changing that. In a novel approach, the defense in an obscenity trial in Florida plans to use publicly accessible Google search data to try to persuade jurors that their neighbors have broader interests than they might have thought."

Full post as published by How Appealing on June 23, 2008 (boomark / email).