CA In other news, Canada has a law against "corrupting morals"

[das_nut]

A Quebec special effects artist charged with corrupting morals has been found not guilty in a case that tested the boundaries of creative expression and Canadian obscenity laws.

Remy Couture received the verdict from the jury late Saturday, after two days of deliberation.

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Seriously Canada? Law against corrupting morals?

 

[Josh James xVx]

Whose morals?

 

[Eleven]

"The material in question depicts gruesome murders, torture, sexual abuse, assaults and necrophilia — all with young female victims."

I'd convict him of bad taste.

 

[beancounter]

It's one of those laws that's rarely enforced but on the books as a way to legally suppress dissent if the government should ever deem it necessary. I .bet the US has laws like that too.

 

[das_nut]

It's one of those laws that's rarely enforced but on the books as a way to legally suppress dissent if the government should ever deem it necessary. I .bet the US has laws like that too.

We do. Luckily the first amendment is pretty strong in the US, and such laws are unlikely to survive a constitutional challenge in the present climate. (This wasn't always the case, sadly.)