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<blockquote data-quote="Fred&amp;#039;s Myth" data-source="post: 5546470" data-attributes="member: 55587">Community standards have the legal authority.&quot;As a legal term in the United States, community standards arose from a test to determine whether material is or is not <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscenity" target="_blank">obscene</a> as explicated in the 1957RA <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" target="_blank">Supreme Court</a> decision in the matter of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roth_v._United_States" target="_blank">Roth v. United States</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_standards#cite_note-USL_def-1" target="_blank">[1]</a> In its 6–3 decision written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_William_J._Brennan_Jr." target="_blank">William J. Brennan, Jr.</a>, the court held that material being obscene depended upon &quot;whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fred's Myth, post: 5546470, member: 55587"] Community standards have the legal authority. "As a legal term in the United States, [B]community standards[/B] arose from a test to determine whether material is or is not [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscenity']obscene[/URL] as explicated in the 1957RA [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States']Supreme Court[/URL] decision in the matter of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roth_v._United_States']Roth v. United States[/URL].[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_standards#cite_note-USL_def-1'][1][/URL] In its 6–3 decision written by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_William_J._Brennan_Jr.']William J. Brennan, Jr.[/URL], the court held that material being obscene depended upon "whether [B]to the average person,[/B] applying [B]contemporary community standards,[/B] the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to [B][I]prurient interest."[/I][/B] [/QUOTE]

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