Google Trends vs. Community Standards On Obscenity 332
circletimessquare writes "Google Trends is being used in a novel way in a pornography trial in Florida. Under a 1973 Supreme Court ruling, 'contemporary community standards' may be used as a yardstick for judging material as unprotected obscenity. This is a very subjective judgment, and so Lawrence Walters, a defense lawyer for Clinton Raymond McCowen, is using Google Trends to show that, in the privacy of their own homes, more people in Pensacola (the only city in the court's jurisdiction that is large enough to be singled out in the service's data) are interested in 'orgy' than "apple pie'."
The reason for this is obvious (Score:4, Funny)
As American Pie demonstrated, it just doesn't work as well as they claim.
American pie (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, but did he try "warm apple pie". I bet he'd get very different results! :-D
Is that only in Pensacola? (Score:3, Funny)
Can anyone put up a picture of the U.S. (and world) that highlights areas that find apple pies more interesting that orgies?
Weird spike (Score:5, Funny)
O.k., I can understand "Apple Pie" spiking every fall, presumably people looking up recipes. But wtf is up with the enormous spike in searches for "orgy" in Sept. 2006? It's as if everyone in Pensacola had a mass orgy meme sweep through the community. Must have been a mess month.
Re:Petard, meet hoist. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:American pie (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hyprocrisy in the South--film at eleven! (Score:5, Funny)
As a navy semen, I reject your pornosition that sex is always on our minds.
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Were did the peak come from? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Petard, meet hoist. (Score:5, Funny)
Interesting statement. "meant" - by whom? Who says it should be performed in private (except people nowadays)?
You're assuming quite a bit, I suspect. I, on the other hand, know for sure that the FSM meant for sexual intercourse to be performed in large tubs of grated parmesan cheese by dozens of people at once.
Re:more interested in orgy than apple pie? (Score:3, Funny)
The comparison is skewed.
Re:Weird spike (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Petard, meet hoist. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Is that only in Pensacola? (Score:5, Funny)
Here you go. [wisc.edu]
Black = orgy more interesting.
Red = apple pie more interesting.
White = water.
Re:Petard, meet hoist. (Score:2, Funny)
Whole new meaning for "His Noodley Appendage"
Re:Petard, meet hoist. (Score:4, Funny)
It is amazing how easily "procreation" and "procrastination" can be confused when you don't have your morning coffee.
In either case, I agree!
Re:Petard, meet hoist. (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, there is a body of research that suggests this was the original meaning, but that the faith has been corrupted and twisted with time.
Awkard... (Score:1, Funny)
I live in Pensacola.
Um, yeah.
Re:Petard, meet hoist. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Petard, meet hoist. (Score:5, Funny)
"Plants are sexual too"
Yea, I've been noticing my petunias giving me the eye lately. Must be that time of year...
Re:Petard, meet hoist. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Petard, meet hoist. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Petard, meet hoist. (Score:2, Funny)