‘Obscene’ U.S. Manga Collector Jailed 6 Months
 

Thoughtcrime - it's bad, m'kay!

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...at+Level%29%29

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I saw a bit about that a while back when I gave the Sextronix guys a link to this Wiki page about hentai legal status in different countries.

Free speech isn't so free. :P

'Ya, you can create whatever you want....as long as doesn't relate to children, etc. etc.'

I blame the Religious Right, honestly. They want to have 'freedoms' that are only as 'free' as their religious convictions permit. :P

Even if it's cartoon, I think it's still just wrong to get off on CP and/or beastiality.

I'm an Atheist and I don't like people who want to fuck kids.

By that same type of argument, every human on earth is a criminal in some other earthling's eyes.

You, by being an "atheist", for instance, deserve death in the eyes of some large percentage of humans, or at least torture and imprisonment.

And we americans do business with the japanese all the time, yet they do not have the same prohibition about sex with minors, a trait they share with well over half the earth's population.

Moral disgust varies according to brain programming. It is not an absolute measure of anything.

What a sad fucking joke. Half the real rapes that are reported in our country don't even lead to an arrest, let alone a conviction, yet we spend time and money prosecuting people for thought crimes. It's horrifying.

I wish they'd start going after women who collect the rape porn on Oprah's book list. Double standards, anyone?

UW as distasteful as the idea is that someone might be getting off on those pics, it's still a matter of prosecuting someone for thinking rather than doing. I can think about blowing up buildings without doing it. I'm thinking it right now... and now I've said it, so are you :D

The hysteria about pedophilia has become a major political issue and it's driving censorship everywhere. We've had a second prosecution in Australia for possession of sexually explicit cartoons of the Simpsons. And as seem with the small boobs issue, if a model "looks" young, it's an illegal image.

We're already into the realm of thought crime prosecutions and I find that very disturbing.

The rationale used here is very dangerous as the recipient is prosecuted, not the sender. What if someone mails a package to someone they don't like and then anonymously tips off customs? What if someone receives a spam email containing questionable content?

For clarity, I was pointing out how ignorant Eros' statement was. I was neither agreeing nor disagreeing with whether or not a moron who fantasizes about screwing kids should be put in jail. The case has nothing to do with religious convictions -- if such things even exist.

In the UK that is exactly the law. If you open the package or email you are deemed to have accepted it, and can be arrested. The police use that as 'proof' all the time. (Although the sender is guilty too.)