Not according to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Reno v. ACLU. However, the Court’s later ruling in Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union potentially opens a door for communities with conservative sexual mores to prosecute online material as “obscenity” even when it is considered only “indecent” in a liberal community where it was placed online. Yet sexually explicit material that has clearly serious political, artistic, literary or scientific value cannot legally be declared obscene in any community, according to the Supreme Court in Pope v. Illinois.