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by loeg 126 days ago
"I know it when I see it" notoriously does not work in law, either. Instead, we have the Miller test.
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Pt 1 of the Miller test is just "I know it when I see it" where "I" is a hypothetical random person
Not really. It has slightly more well-defined criteria than that. Material must satisfy all three prongs to be considered obscene.