In a round about way. Seems like a lawyer in FLorida is presenting Google seach requests as an authority for what makes up "community standards":
"In a novel approach, the defense in an obscenity trial in Florida plans to use publicly accessible Google search data to try to persuade jurors that their neighbors have broader interests than they might have thought. In the trial of a pornographic Web site operator, the defense plans to show that residents of Pensacola are more likely to use Google to search for terms like “orgy” than for “apple pie” or “watermelon.” "
Remember what Trudeau said about society or the state having no place in the bedrooms of the nation? It would seem to me that what one is doing when one is searching for "orgy" on Google is that on the bedroom or private side of things. It is where one is autonomous from the community or the state.
Sure, one can be a nut bar like Margaret Thatcher and insist there is no such thing as "the community" but that would not define what community standards are so much as deny the test as a whole. No, all Google does is hint as to aggregated private standards. Community is something else, what people are comfortable doing and saying and believing when they are together. Public and private are different that way - even if the internet discourages community. If you share backyard fences you'll understand. I wonder if you do if you move from the apartment to the car to the cube farm?
