Did Perez Hilton violate a federal obscenity law?

By at 9:48 am Wednesday, Mar 17

"Perez Hilton may have violated a federal obscenity law when he posted an explicit adult video clip to his widely-read site earlier this week," writes Susannah Breslin at True/Slant. The perezhilton.com post included what was believed to be a hardcore porn video clip featuring Chuy Bravo, a man with dwarfism whose day job is performing as Chelsea Handler's sidekick on her late-night E! talk show, Chelsea Lately. "In doing so, Hilton may have run afoul of obscenity laws that strictly dictate the terms under which pornographic content can appear online."

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