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NEWS: Article on Anime Child Porn

...laws expanded to included animeated child porn.

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/LAW/04/16/scotus.virtual.child.porn/index.html

Virtual child porn has always been legal in the US.

I hate to break out the often-used slippery-slope argument but: this is a slippery slope. Freedom of expression always, ALWAYS, gets taken away by targeting the least popular forms of speech first. And then when that doesen't solve the problem (and it won't) then there'll be calls to put more and more clamps on anime and free speech in general, and pretty soon it won't just be lolicon hentai, or hentai in general, feeling the heat. Real child porn is and should forever be banned because it involves real children-anime and manga porn does not. It may be unpleasant and gross, it may be a thousand other things, but there's one thing it will never be-real.

Oh, and why is it the proponents of this law are taking a CONVICTED CHILD-MURDERER at his word? It's pretty easy to say "oooh, dirty manga made me do it!" after the fact. That's just a way of dodging responsibility. HE made the concious desicion to take a life-manga certainly didn't. There has to have been something deeply wrong with this guy to do such a thing, and a comic book wasn't going to change how messed up he was. This is no different than the kids here in America who are trying to use Grand Theft Auto as a get out of jail free card.

But I can only see an age restriction of it's sale as the only excepted means to which their government will have any success. Banning it will only drive it underground. Self regulation by the providers will have to be stepped up and if anything this will be a shot across their bow to do so, or face tougher legislation.

Mohawk52 wrote:

But I can only see an age restriction of it's sale as the only excepted means to which their government will have any success. Banning it will only drive it underground. Self regulation by the providers will have to be stepped up and if anything this will be a shot across their bow to do so, or face tougher legislation.

Wait, isn't there an age restriction on buying this stuff already? Because if there isn't, there definatly needs to be.

Konan University's Sonoda said the problem should be addressed by restricting juveniles' access to pornographic animation -- through local government ordinances banning the sale or rental of harmful materials to minors -- instead of blanket legal controls on the makers of pornographic content.

I hate to break out the often-used slippery-slope argument but: this is a slippery slope. Freedom of expression always, ALWAYS, gets taken away by targeting the least popular forms of speech first. And then when that doesen't solve the problem (and it won't) then there'll be calls to put more and more clamps on anime and free speech in general, and pretty soon it won't just be lolicon hentai, or hentai in general, feeling the heat. Real child porn is and should forever be banned because it involves real children-anime and manga porn does not. It may be unpleasant and gross, it may be a thousand other things, but there's one thing it will never be-real.

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—
and there was no one left to speak out.

Of course, I'm against porn in general.

NightHedgehog wrote:

Of course, I'm against porn in general.

One man's porn is another man's Macy's underwear ad.