Tag: child pornography

Do you like manga? Move out of the US! Or: The Crime of Viewing Manga

Lawrence Allen Stanley is an American lawyer who made a career as a New York Attorney, defending in cases that included child pornography.

Experience in this area led Stanley to write articles on the subject of child pornography, notably “The Hysteria Over Child Pornography and Paedophilia”, later published in Playboy as “The Child Pornography Myth”.

Regarding kids, there can’t be other opinion (I’ll try to explain why in a one of the next posts) – “do not touch them!”. But the biggest problem is the definition of the term “child porno”. What is considered “children pornography”?

Part I explains some of the major legal points. But what if it’s manga we are talking about? Common sense tells us that drawings are by no means related to child porno. Because … Hm… the depicted subjects simply do not exist! However, some legal authorities think otherwise…

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Maddison Gabriel, child pornography, sexually explicit conduct,
US code collection, definition, terms and federal cases

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May you save this picture on your local computer? Should that picture be considered potentially dangerous? At least, you must be aware of the terms, definitions and legal consequences before judging the sites you come across.

Definitions:

  1. child pornography – means any visual depiction, including any photograph, film, video, picture, or computer-generated image or picture, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means, of sexually explicit conduct, where:

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