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Re:Diaspora: Hello and a big welcome to everyone arriving fr... by Certhas on Friday November 02, 2018 @08:03AM (#18362367)
Obscenity laws are constitutional in the US. Obscene speech is not protected by the 1st Amendment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_v._California

There are myriads of other exceptions to 1st Amendment protections (including, even if people often don't think of it that way, intellectual property rights):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

The whole idea that "Free speech is protected in the US but not in Europe" is just an (libertarian?) meme with no basis in fact.

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