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The Swedish Manga trial
A translator of Japanese Manga has been accused of hosting child pornography since the authorities have found some images of "human like" figures with bodies that are "prepubertal", ie are small and where the females have no accentuated breasts. He has already been sentenced in two instances of court but he has appealed to the highest court.
Many people in the art world and among the culturally interested find the trial preposterous and a threat to the freedom of art. Here is an article about the case: Quote:
What do you think, have the Swedish authorities completely lost it, or are really drawn images to be considered pornographic? |
An interesting aspect that some of the involved in the Swedish debate mentioned is that only drawings of children (or children like creatures like small elfs, and perhaps small naked Navi) that can be interpreted in some sexual way is forbidden. Drawings of children that are being assaulted or even shot is not forbidden (as long as they are not nude or that the violence have some elemets of sex). So violence is OK, but not nakedness or any hints of eroticism.
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Never underestimate the stupidity of humans, especially around politically potent subjects like child pornography.
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"Why won't anybody think of the children?" meh |
If it's not real children, why does anyone give a dick?
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WTF. This is unbelievably stupid and 1984-esque, especially if the reason is 'small breasts'...
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The Swedish Manga trial
Honestly this is like back in the day where pornographic photos of women were illegal, but painted pornographic images weren't.
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It says the law considers drawings too, I can imagine they can also send me to jail for this:
http://ompldr.org/vZHltMw So very subjective...:S |
This is in no way debate worthy :P
Edit: Why Applejuice, that girl isn't wearing a shirt! |
Precisely!
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It seems that comic books are targets for iconclasts everywhere. Now the US Christian right wing group "One Million Moms" has targeted comic books that the group considers spreading gay propaganda:
One Million Moms targets DC, Marvel over gay storylines | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment |
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'As christians we know that homosexuality is a sin'
Eywa help their children, especially the gay ones :/ |
I hate bigoted buttholes like that.
(Edited for content. Replace butt with a vulgar word and you've got the picture.) |
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If it is it's probably temporary. As times change different political views develop, with varying levels of severity. There will always be moderatism and extremism, only the subject changes. It's the way it's always been, and forever will be. Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis - be it for the better or worse.
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It seems that common sense finally won. The court has now ruled that the images hosted in the Manga translators computer are not child pornography.
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A victory for free speech and common sense. Now we just need to hope other countries follow this precedent :)
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Well damn, finally. Still can't believe something like this could go to court anywhere.
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On a related note, in the UK under the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, non-photographic pornagraphic images that give the "predominant impression" is of a person under the age of 18 are illegal. This means that manga like this case is illegal in the UK.
This is espectially complex since the age of consent in the UK is 16. |
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