Here’s a serious issue

[maderr]

I’ve been following it since it came out, when a man was arrested for possessing manga that the government declared obscene.

Neil Gaiman talks about it here.

kadymae says it best here.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This is something I think is very relevant in the slash communities. After all, there are plently of people I'm sure who strongly believe slash is immoral and should be banned. Which of course would make me cry, as both a person who hates censorship, and loves the slash (specially de pr0n slash). Kudos for bringing this up, I think too many people are just squicked because the case involves the pedo-taboo and fail to see how it may affect them.

Think of the man-smex people!


Oh,and peoples rights...mainly de smex though.

[sixpence1323.livejournal.com]

Hey, as long as the guy with the said comic isn't actually molesting little children, I'm game. (Or endorses live pornograhpy too) Aw, man, the Feds try so hard with that 1st Amendment. But don't they just know that's really the one Amendment they'll never beat? Ever? Tch. I almost feel bad for them. There's a line, but sometimes ignorance blurs it. I mean, if there were actual children drawn in the comic having sex - I just skimmed the article, so there very well could be - I probably would be like, "Hmm. Hmm. Yeah, not sure what stance to take now. I'm not, technically, okay with that, but there's also the 1st Amendment to consider -" yadda yadda yadda.

My thing? Compromise. But that hardly ever works out.

So... my two cents into the machine - *chink chink*

[sixpence1323.livejournal.com]

And by live pornography, I mean child. And by never beat it, I mean Supreme Court would declare said law banning comic book unconstitutional. ~And~ by compromise, I mean No Pedo, but Yes Slash.

I fucking despise people who look at children that way. It makes me sick to my stomach.

[sixpence1323.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Left out something again. *annoyed* Neil Gaiman points out that one of his plot lines has little children beign raped. I haven't read it, so I wouldn't know, but the way he puts it = important.

Pedo-ness = glorifying the act of child pornography. Gaiman = clearly, distinctly classifying the action as bad, however = plot device. Distinctions between the two should be made.

I have no qualms with Gaiman on that front.

[spurious-sanity.livejournal.com]

as a slash fangirl (and slash writer), I'm worried. as a fantasy fangirl, I'm worried (lotta slavery and nasties in a lot of the series). as a yaoi fangirl, I'm worried. As a free-thinking individual, who loves her rights, I'm worried.

...y'know, there's a word for governments that put people in jail for reading stuff the government doesn't like....

[hyperjirou.livejournal.com]

This seriously scares me. Especially since child in this case probably means high school student, since they refer to the manga in question as yaoi not shota. It scares me that if this becomes illegal a lot of yaoi fans could be arrested for things like Gerard et Jacques (which I consider a masterpiece) or high school romance yaoi. How many series would Blu and DMP have to discontinue because of such a ruling.