Zanghi examines how a global-reach media technology such as the Internet confounds efforts to meaningfully define and apply the notion of community standards. The author recounts some of the early court cases in which the courts struggled with the notion of community standards in the online realm. He concludes that the courts’ reliance on local community standards when deciding indecency and obscenity issues is no longer workable, and that a new standard that accounts for the perspective of “society at large” should be employed.