Louisville, KY Is The Most Obscene City In The U.S.

[Jack]

Ambitious prosecutors are now trying to shut down Internet pornographers by trying them in towns where conservative "community standards" make an obscenity conviction more likely. A novel defense now being tried in a Pensacola, Fla. obscenity case: Using Google Trends to prove that the town's "community standards" are more prurient than prosecutors are willing to admit. The idea: If Google proves that local residents search for "sex" more than they do for, well, anything else, then the defense can argue that Internet pornographers are just satisfying a local need, not corrupting innocent minds. We like this idea, though we're dubious that the courts are going to go for it. The 10 American Cities Most Likely To Search For Obscene Material 1. Louisville, KY 2. Rochester, NY 3. Philadelphia, PA 4. Newark, NJ 5. Los Angeles, CA 6. Irvine, CA 7. Pittsburgh, PA 8. Las Vegas, NV 9. Albany, NY 10. Orlando, FL Here's how we got there: We used George Carlin's (R.I.P.) "Seven Dirty Words" as obscenity proxies, and looked up each of them on Google Trends. We restricted the results to the United States, and noted the top 10 cities querying each of the seven words. Top scores went to cities that showed up on multiple lists; to break ties, we assigned weight values depending on a city's rank on individual lists. Note that Google weights its own results to account for population: The cities listed above showed the greatest percentage of searchers looking for dirty words, not the greatest number of people.

Google: Louisville, KY Is The Most Obscene City In The U.S.

It seems George's "7 dirty words" have been getting a lot of renewed attention since his death.

So do you think this is significant?

[Compugasm]

Quote by: Jack So do you think this is significant?

I think these community standards are a terrible idea. It's yet another group controlling and monitoring you're activities determining what "normal" is. The difference is, IP addresses can be associated with individual queries. I'm sure they don't do anything with that info now, but it's not to hard to imagine that once they figure out a good use for that knowledge, they certainly will root you out for not being "decent" according to some arbitrary standards.

And again "Obscene" is cited. Do we have to sit on that merry-go-round of what is obscene? I find just thinking about this argument tiring.

[Rogue Cardinal]

Having lived in Louisville for some time....and traveling to other parts of this country. I find this article.....utter tripe.

[ironeagle]

I don't see what searches have to do woth anything, if the material is not illegal and the persons searchng are of the age required to view the material what does it matter what a communities though on it is. The rights of the constitution are for the protection of everyone and not just the majority.

[grandpa]

Quote by: ironeagle I don't see what searches have to do woth anything, if the material is not illegal and the persons searchng are of the age required to view the material what does it matter what a communities though on it is. The rights of the constitution are for the protection of everyone and not just the majority.

Yes, but the majority are trying to ram laws
down everyone's throats.

Grandpa h.

[ironeagle]

Perhaps that's true but so far they have not succeeded so I would say the "majority" in one city has not refelcted the "majority" in the country or state overall.