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  some old guy, Jun 24th, 2008 @ 2:05pm

  
  

  boobs

  boobs, and several other words commonly used to describe the female chest were even more prominent in the results.
  
  Since boobs are so popular, I see no reason why women should be required to cover them in public.

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Jun 24th, 2008 @ 8:13pm

  
  

  Re: boobs

  In Ohio they can be topless in public, well technically... A women sued for the right and won by stating it was legal for men to be topless in public thus the law couldn't forbid females from being topless. Trouble is, no one has ever really tested it out and just because they can't get you one way doesn't mean they won't get you another. It really is just like the right to bear arms, sure you can legally own a broadsword and carry it with you in public but just try to. You'll be slapped with inciting a public panic in no time.

   

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  Luci, Jun 24th, 2008 @ 11:51pm

  
  

  Re: Re: boobs

  Err.. You can NOT carry a broadsword in public unless it is in a locked case. Not in Ohio. Here, you can carry a single-edged blade no more than 5 inches in length.

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Jun 24th, 2008 @ 2:28pm

  
  

  How does one show what the community standards are when it concerns activities done in the privacy of one's own home?

  It doesn't concern activities in one's own home. Possession and viewing obscenity in the privacy of one's home is protected. See Stanely v. Georgia. Community standards come into play once one chooses to make allegedly obscene material publicly available. The community standards can then draw upon what is publicly available in the community.

   

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  Blatant Coward, Jun 24th, 2008 @ 2:35pm

  
  

  So if boobs are "publicly available in the community" I can draw on them? Sweeeeet.

   

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  Anonymous of Course, Jun 24th, 2008 @ 2:42pm

  
  

  The Public At Large

  Do Google users represent "the local community?"
  I'd like to see the demographics for the community
  in question. To start with, how many residents
  are computer users?

   

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  some old gy, Jun 24th, 2008 @ 2:57pm

  
  

  Re: The Public At Large

  So what are you doing here then. Go get a grant and do the study to find out. Let us know when you're done.

   

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  The IANAL Coward, Jun 24th, 2008 @ 9:34pm

  
  

  Expanded argument against Google as a Standard

  Stanley v. Georgia is a good example. Expanding on that, the prosecution can argue that the Internet is a separate community, not applicable to the non-virtual world.
  
  For example, most people think having sex in the bedroom is not obscene (many people do have sex in their bedrooms), but few would have sex in public, because the community considers it obscene despite the number of people having sex in private. Standards in the bedroom are different than standards in public.
  
  Citing Google as a measurement of "community standards" is relevant only to the Internet as a community. If Google Trends showed a majority of people searching for GTA IV, should the acts in GTA IV be made legal.

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Jun 24th, 2008 @ 9:38pm

  
  

  Google also does not represent those members of the community without internet access, or those accessing through a proxy, those visiting from other states, etc. This could also be thwarted by a lawyer hiring spam-bot networks to do thousands of searches on Google for pornographic materials in the month's and weeks leading up to a hearing/trial.

   

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