Over the past eight years, the Clinton administration turned a blind eye to on-line pornography. Anti-porn advocates described the inaction by Clinton’s Attorney General, Janet Reno, as a “green light” to porn sites to “get more graphic and explicit.”
The Department of Justice is now reported to have $5 million set aside specifically to enforce obscenity laws.
In addition to State-specific laws, the US federal government has a three-part test in determining obscenity:
Commentators suggest that the strict application of these criteria would find countless sites in breach.