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Groups is a FREE service offered for the convenience and enjoyment of responsible adults everywhere.
Guidelines for Responsible Use of the Groups Platform
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18+ Only: No erotic materials depicting or discussing minors
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No Piracy: You may post and discuss content that you own, content that depicts you, as well as content that is within the public domain.
But you may
not
post the latest Tom Cruise movie, Jenna Jameson release from Jenna.com, or that pre-release Madonna MP3 file that you found on a Russian website.
Please respect the intellectual property of others.
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No Illegal Materials: You may not post material that is unlawful in the U.S. or in your own Country. This includes (but is not limited to) the following:
instructions for making bombs and weapons of mass desctruction, child pornography (actual or simulated), illegal obscenity (see
note
; including, but not limited to, bestiality,
defecation & related "bathroom functions", extreme torture/bondage, and rape), and discussions that contemplate or otherwise pose a violent threat to political leaders.
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It's about You: You are responsible for your own conduct on this service.
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Respect others: Conform your conduct at all times to the Groups
Code of Conduct
For Additional Terms & Conditions discussing the acceptable uses of this service, please click "Terms & Conditions" at the bottom of this page.
Obscenity note
: If you independently post adult-oriented content to the Groups platform, and that content meets the legal definition of "obscenity" in any community, state or country from, through or to which it is transmitted, you could be prosecuted under applicable obscenity laws.
(It is strongly recommended that you consult with an attorney prior to posting, distributing or publishing adult-oriented content on this or any other internet platform.)
For informational purposes only, a summary review follows of all federal obscenity indictments brought in the United States in contemporary times (since the popular emergence of the world wide web in 1995 more than ten years ago), in which:
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the predominant subject matter of the prosecutions
did not involve child pornography and/or child exploitation, and;
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the text of the federal criminal indictments specified or described the nature of the subject matter that the government alleged to be obscene
U.S. Federal obscenity indictments since 1995 that specify or describe the subject matter alleged to be obscene:
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"The web sites, including 'forbiddenvideos.com', were used to advertise and distribute [content] depicting rape scenes, sexual torture, and urination and defecation in conjunction with sex acts." ... "depicted scenes of rape, described and pandered on the website as follows: 'Want a video of a REAL RAPE? This is no joke.' "
(United States. v. Clarence Thomas Gartman, Brent Alan McDowell & Lou Anthony Santilena, U. S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, 2004 )
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"Video tapes, DVDs and computer video files. . .depicting sexually explicit scenes of defecation, urination and flatus. . ." (United States v. Michael J. Corbett, Sharon E. Corbett, Joseph Tanner, Randall Rogers, U.S. District Court, Southern District of West Virginia, 2003)
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"Videotapes identified as "PS-143: UR-A-Peen" and "MV-115: Rape and Sodomize."" j (United States v. Thomas W. Lambert and Sanford Wasserman, U.S. District Court, District of Montana, 2004)
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"Video tapes depicting rape scenes... described on the [defendants' ]web site as follows: 'Want a video of a REAL RAPE? This is no joke, they actually raped a girl and made this video. She is about 20 yrs. old, a very loud screamer, and cries like a baby. . . . She pleads for mercy and begs the men to stop the tape. The men tie her up and have their way with her, including shoving a BASEBALL BAT into her small pussy, pouring hot wax IN her pussy and mouth!' ; "...video tapes...described on the web site as follows: 'This girl gets her tits slashed by a sharp knife and 4 fingers shoved in her ass! 60 minutes.'"
(United States v. Garry Layne Ragsdale, Tamara Michelle Ragsdale, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, 2003)
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"Video tapes which depicted graphic sexual acts including sexual intercourse between humans and animals, urination, defecation, and fisting...".
(United States v. Gary A. Robinson, U.S. District Court, District of Montana, 2004)
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"Videotapes and DVDs depicting sexually explicit content involving ... sadistic and masochistic conduct, defecation, urination, and bestiality."
(United States v. Ronald G. Urbassik, Alina D. Urbassik, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, 2004)
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