Senators have long held a view of all newspapers that no real work of art is obscene, so there is no conflict between the need to encourage free artistic expression and the need to protect the public from obscene works. When people cite masterpieces that are generally considered obscene as possible counterexamples, the senator believes that if they are indeed obscene, then they cannot be works of art. In order to determine that the above principle is correct.
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