Moral Panic — from anti-commie to anti-nazi

[kandrathe]

I am going off topic here, but with a thread title that includes the term "Moral Panic". I couldn't resist noting that Hugh Hefner just died.

Oh, noes. I never quite understood his fame, other than being present at the beginning of the sexual revolution and attempting to take exploitative soft porn mainstream. Yet another industry disrupted by the mostly unregulated internet.

On topic, the moral panic of that era (late 60’s to early 80’s), was the intrusion of people like Edwin Meese into 1st amendment restriction, and outright censorship of “immoral” publishers.

Reaction to 1969;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presiden...ornography