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material that is harmful to minors

Defined in 2 places across 2 titles of the United States Code.

The term “material that is harmful to minors” means any communication, picture, image, graphic image file, article, recording, writing, or other matter of any kind that is obscene or that—

(A) the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find, taking the material as a whole and with respect to minors, is designed to appeal to, or is designed to pander to, the prurient interest;

(B) depicts, describes, or represents, in a manner patently offensive with respect to minors, an actual or simulated sexual act or sexual contact, an actual or simulated normal or perverted sexual act, or a lewd exhibition of the genitals or post-pubescent female breast; and

(C) taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.

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  • 1998–present47 U.S.C. § 231Telecommunications · Restriction of access by minors to materials commercially distributed by means of World Wide Web that are harmful to minors · in this section

the terms “material that is harmful to minors” and “sex” have the meaning given such terms in section 2252B; and

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