Their lineage extends to the Restoration, when acting troupes took over empty dining rooms above pubs to perform plays of lewd material that went well with a pint.
Clear Channel Communications, the radio broadcaster, said yesterday that it had agreed to pay a $755,000 fine for allowing lewd material on a program broadcast on four stations in Florida.
Google effectively countered the lewd material with a smarter storefront.
According to Xinhua, all websites, search engines and mobile app stores will be monitored for lewd material under the state's microscope.
But additional emails were later discovered as part of the FBI's investigation into former Rep. Anthony Weiner, then the husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, as part of a federal investigation into Weiner sending lewd material to an underage girl.
Comstock boasted that he destroyed hundreds of tons of "lewd and lascivious material," including 60,000 "obscene rubber articles," otherwise known as condoms.
Banners, films, flags, photographs, placards, posters, signs, writing or other visible representations or paraphernalia containing violent, lewd or obscene material must not be displayed or exhibited.
However, permits are required if the event concerns matters directly or indirectly relating to any religious belief or religion generally, or which may "cause feelings of enmity, hatred, ill-will or hostility between different racial or religious groups in Singapore"; or involves the display of any banner, film, photograph, placard or poster containing violent, lewd or obscene material.
A minor change was also introduced to the conditions for the use of Speakers' Corner – no banner, film, photograph, placard or poster containing any violent, lewd or obscene material may be displayed or exhibited whether before, during or after the event.
By 1873, the US Congress passed the Comstock Act making it illegal to send "obscene, lewd, and/or lascivious" materials through the mail.
Information about contraception was considered to be obscene at the time, so the activists targeted the Comstock laws, which prohibited distribution of any "obscene, lewd, and/or lascivious" materials through the mail.
