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New York v. Ferber

A Supreme Court case that permitted prohibitions on child pornography because those works are produced by abusing children.

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Jan 17, 2026
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How have U.S. courts treated prosecutions based solely on viewing illegal content accessed via anonymizing networks?

U.S. courts have long drawn a line between protected speech and criminal content—routinely holding that child pornography is unprotected and that possession or viewing can be criminalized—yet the mate...

Jan 29, 2026

What did Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition decide about virtual child pornography and why?

The in v. struck down parts of the that criminalized “virtual child pornography” — images that appear to depict minors but were produced without using real children — holding that those provisions wer...

Jan 29, 2026

What legal cases have addressed sexualized fictional characters in art and whether they violate local obscenity or child-protection laws?

law draws a firm line between sexual depictions involving real children—which the has treated as unprotected child pornography—and purely fictional or animated sexual content, which is regulated prima...

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