[ SECRET POST #219 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #219 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 103 secrets from Secret Submission Post #032.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 ] broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Monday, August 12th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Funny thing, it's NOT child porn, by legal definition. Pornographic text isn't covered by US child porn laws, and drawn depictions are exempt. The only those two fall under are US obscenity laws, which are dictated by whether or not the piece in question holds any artistic merit.

This is also why those drawing fan art are being more easily targeted than those writing fanfiction.

[(Anonymous)]

And because I can't type:

*The only laws those two fall under

[kinneas.livejournal.com]

Legally you are correct, though only in the States (which is, admittedly, what 6A must adhere to). However, porn involving children = child porn, and there's not really a lot of arguing against that.

[(Anonymous)]

And the next step in the devolution of this argument is how to define a "child." And are a child and a minor the same thing. Let's not go down that road, and say that, squicking your moral qualms or not, what goes on here is legal. And the OP is asking for it if he/she's going to go around condemning people for the art they make on objective grounds instead of, oh, say, legal grounds.

[kinneas.livejournal.com]

I think you mean "subjective", and you're implying somehow that the law is NOT?

[aishiteru.livejournal.com]

... touche, anonymouse. I didn't actually know that. "Drawn depictions" .. wow. That makes LJ's take on this whole mess even MORE fucked up than I already thought!

Is that why that one artist was told their piece lacked "artistic merit"? I've only heard about most of this wank practically third hand - I was abroad while all of it was actually happening and had no internet access.

That's ridiculously sad. The defense rests.

I mean, like I said, I still see the OP's point. It's just overly extreme. Just like LJ's hardline on the matter! Funny, that.