06.27.2008  BY EM & LO
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Next time you're engaging in some, er, "after hours" Googling, you might just be doing your bit to contribute to the definition of obscenity in America. At least that's what a defense lawyer in a Florida obscenity trial is hoping.

Here's the deal: when determining whether sexually explicit material is obscene, judges and jurors are supposed to make the decision based on whether the material violates "community standards." And this sneaky lawyer wants to use Google search data to prove that community standards are a little looser than people might admit to in church on a Sunday. He's defending a porn site operator in Pensacola, Florida, and he discovered that residents of that town are more likely to Google the term "orgy" than either "apple pie" or "watermelon." (What, nobody takes along home-made apple pies to orgies anymore?) But before you uproot yourself and move down to the Sunshine State, consider this: when it comes to Pensacola's Google search data, "orgy" is in turn out-ranked by both "Nintendo" and "Nascar." Now that's obscene.


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