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besafenh t1_jciml6z wrote

Justice Potter Stewart defined pornography for the SCOTUS: “I know it when I see it.”

Full quote, showing the problematic nature:

“I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description, and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.”

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