It further criminalized the transmission of materials that were " obscene or indecent " to persons known to be under 18.

Unacceptable behaviours may include creation and transmission of offensive, obscene, or indecent document or images, creation and transmission of material which is designed to cause annoyance, inconvenience or anxiety, creation of defamatory material, creation and transmission that infringes copyright of another person, transmission of unsolicited commercial or advertising material and deliberate unauthorised access to other services accessible using the connection to the network / Internet.

The Communications Decency Act was an attempt to protect minors from explicit material on the Internet by criminalizing the knowing transmission of " obscene or indecent " messages to any recipient under 18 ; and also the knowing sending to a person under 18 of anything " that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs.

To increase the penalties for violations by television and radio broadcasters of the prohibitions against transmission of obscene, indecent, and profane language.

The first attempt to regulate pornography on the Internet was the federal Communications Decency Act of 1996, which prohibited the " knowing " transmission of " indecent " messages to minors and the publication of materials which depict, in a manner " patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs ", unless those materials were protected from access by minors, for example by the use of credit card systems.

Most public schools in Canada do not require that students wear uniforms, but most include rules against indecent or offensive clothing.

In Latin, the middle finger was the digitus impudicus, meaning the " shameless, indecent or offensive finger ".

Among the numerous campaigns Bozell has led with the PTC have included campaigning to bring back the " Family Viewing Hour ", filing complaints with the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) over what he sees as indecent programs, and boycotting corporations that advertise on television programs that the organization believes to be offensive.

She was also critical of comedians such as Benny Hill and his use of dancers ; she described Dave Allen as " offensive, indecent and embarrassing " after a comic account of a conversation following sexual intercourse.

Many jurisdictions have precedents ( for example, in California, In re Dallas W. ( 2000 )), establishing that public nudity, even if offensive, may not rise to the level of indecent exposure unless it is sexually motivated.

* Words that are " obscene, scandalous, indecent, offensive or contrary to Malaysian public norms.

The Naturist Village has rules requiring nudity as the norm, which ban photography, the wearing of provocative clothing and the display of indecent items.

At those times, the expressions were all used interchangeably with " Christian Era ", and " vulgar " meant " not regal " rather than " crudely indecent ".

First, the band was arrested and then released at Edmonton International Airport for wearing their spiked stage wardrobe ( considered " dangerous weapons ") through Customs and for Neil arriving with a small carry-on filled with porn magazines ( considered " indecent material "); both were staged PR stunts.

The costumes not permitted at the event were those of pilgrims and harlequins, which the Empress considered profane and indecent respectively.

The first to record such behavior was Dr Levick, in 1911 and 1912, but his notes were deemed too indecent for publication at the time ; they were rediscovered and published in 2012.

On January 4, 1946, the New York State Censor Board banned Scarlet Street entirely, relying on the statute that gave it power to censor films that were " obscene, indecent, immoral, inhuman, sacrilegious " or whose exhibition " would tend to corrupt morals or incite to crime.

When Westerners once again came into contact with loincloths elsewhere, they viewed it as an exotic and indecent garment, possibly because the wearer's buttocks were partially exposed.

As the 2000s progressed, many of these shows began to see sagging ratings and the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy in 2004 exacerbated the situation as the fear of monetary penalties by the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) for indecent content led many dating shows ( and many syndicated programs targeted at the 18-49 demographic, in general ) to be censored to the point where even profanities typically permissible on television were edited out of episodes.

But, many libraries refused to carry his works on the grounds that they were indecent.

A 1982 attempt to import a consignment of sex dolls into Britain had the unintended consequence of ending the law against importing " obscene or indecent " items that were not illegal to sell within the UK.

Eighteenth century costume historian Joseph Strutt believed that men who did not wear shirts to bed were indecent.

The Commonwealth's appeal of that ruling was active at the time of Geoghan's death, and remaining charges of indecent assault in that case were still pending at that time.

There were also 41 burglars, 20 drug importers, 54 convicted of assault and 27 of indecent assault.

No charges were filed against police or demonstrators, but the governments of Britain and West Germany filed formal protests, including for the indecent assault of two English schoolgirls by police in a police station.

No society is free of either of them, and thus there were " decent " Nazi guards and " indecent " prisoners, most notably the kapo who would torture and abuse their fellow prisoners for personal gain.

The article judged indecent concerned a " Festival of Pornography ", in which many sexual utilities and services were advertised without an accompanying warning that the magazine contained material which should not fall into the hands of persons under the age of 18.

Twenty of his works were seized and Fraser was charged under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959, Dine's work was found to be indecent but not obscene and Fraser was fined 20 guineas.

There were massive rallies in almost all the big islands of Maldives with indecent cartoons of Nasir organized by Gayoom's government.

The implications of this judgement were extensive — not only did it confirm that those downloading indecent images from the Internet were breaking the law, it also meant that law enforcement officers committed the same offence when they made a copy of the contents of suspects ' computer disks.

Anderson ’ s comments upon being informed that his complaints were being omitted from the record as ‘ extraneous and indecent ’, were uncomplimentary enough to provoke the Faculty into voting his suspension from the privileges of the Senate.

Members of parliament, such as Ahmet Çakar, were outraged at the screening and believed it is indecent and unacceptable under the guidance of nationalism.

Later, other charges were dropped, leaving only the charges for conspiracy to maltreat detainees, assault and committing indecent acts.

They ruled that New York's indecent exposure laws did not apply to a bare-breasted woman.

These affiliates opted out, because Ryan included language which the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) had, in March 2004, ruled " indecent and profane ".

In R v Jayson ( CA, EWCA Crim 683 ) the Court of Appeal ruled that " the act of voluntarily downloading an indecent image from a web page on to a computer screen is an act of making a photograph or pseudo-photograph ".

" The two days of broadcasting were ruled indecent by the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ).

Free speech advocates, however, worked diligently and successfully to overturn the portion relating to indecent, but not obscene, speech.

The next month, another US federal court in New York struck down the portion of the CDA intended to protect children from indecent speech as too broad.

Fasting also includes abstaining from any falsehood in speech and action, abstaining from any ignorant and indecent speech, and from arguing, fighting, and having lustful thoughts.

For example, in 2007, a Florida court acquitted a woman of indecent exposure for being topless on Daytona Beach because of the political nature of her stand, under the First Amendment right of free speech.

Fraser qualified Tinker in making an exception for " indecent " speech.

Bethel School District v. Fraser ( 1986 ) supported disciplinary action against a student whose campaign speech was filled with sexual innuendo, and determined to be " indecent " but not " obscene ".

This is in addition to the standard obligation already observed by Muslims of avoiding that which is not permissible under Quranic or Shari ' ah law ( e. g. ignorant and indecent speech, arguing and fighting, and lustful thoughts ).