Censorship/Obscenity at PsychoZone.net?

The Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition came together to oppose Congress' first attempt to regulate content on the Internet, the Communications Decency Act, which the U.S. Supreme Court found unconstitutional on June 26, 1997.

Supreme Court Rules CDA Unconstitutional
[Thursday June 26, 1997]

"As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech is more likely to interfere with the free exchange of ideas than to encourage it. The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship." -- Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for the majority

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment. Writing for the court, Justice John Paul Stevens held that "the CDA places an unacceptably heavy burden on protected speech" and found that all provisions of the CDA are unconstitutional as they apply to "indecent" or "patently offensive" speech. In a separate concurrence, Chief Justice William Rhenquist and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor agreed that the provisions of the CDA are all unconstitutional except in their narrow application to "communications between an adult and one or more minors."

The definition of obscenity, according to the Supreme Court and known informally as the Miller test, is:

must appeal to the prurient interest of the average person
must describe sexual conduct in a way that is "patently offensive" to community standards, and
when taken as a "whole", it "must lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value"

Certain people have complained to us about images and content on our site, and about children having access to view our site.

What we say to you is...The net is not a babysitter. Children should not be surfing the net unsupervised. Would you let your children roam the streets by themselves? What makes for a responsible child is a responsible adult! Your children are YOUR responsibility not ours!

Remember, no child has access to the internet without the consent of a responsible parent/adult. Supervision of children is the responsibility of the parent/adult, as it always has been and always will be.

As far as you adults, that don't like our site. What are you doing here? We have a right to post our views, just as you have a right to view them, or not! If you don't like it, we suggest you leave and don't come back! That's called self censorship! ;-) It's very simple!

Most all our web site content and images are not even prurient, so would not fall under any definition of obscenity. As far as our First Amendment rights. We have them just as you do! If you don't like something, don't view it! It only take a little common sense... USE IT!

Some of our site's content, and pictures may be offensive, but that has never been a crime. Sometimes life is offensive. You just have to expect that.