A legal team attempting to defend their client against (among other things) “obscenity” charges is trying to get Google to release certain stats about search terms in the area the trial is taking place. This is because part of the “obscenity” definition relies upon what “the average person, applying contemporary community standards” would find obscene. Check out the graph.
Spark: Google Stats
Posted by xJane on July 10th, 2008 at 10:25 am · 2 Comments
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1 Elaine // Jul 10, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Of course, the real question is…how many of those folks searching the term “boobs” are men wanting to look at them and how many are women wanting new ones?
Sorry. That was my first thought on seeing that graph.
2 xJane // Jul 10, 2008 at 3:17 pm
heh, that’s a good question. I was thinking of what these results say about the population, along the lines of the “smarter people use Firefox” thing.
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