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Tenn. law bans posting images that "cause emotional distress"

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Re: Tenn. law bans posting images that "cause emotional distress"

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I expect that an argument could be made that this applies to videos as well - they're just moving images, after all. So Tennessee has (accidentally?) banned the distribution of horror movies via the internet.

People have phobias for just about anything so I'm guessing, it's not just horror movies but in my case nearly any kids' movie that contains a certain kind of amphibian. It's even worst for others who are afraid of birds... damn things are everywhere!

Re: Tenn. law bans posting images that "cause emotional distress"

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As someone who strongly values my First Amendment rights, an image of this statue would certainly cause me emotional distress.

*statute

Utterly unintentional and somewhat hilarious misspelling on my part, especially since I used to work for a startup that made a statute search engine.
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