What's Bugging You Today? Volume 3, Part 1

[Razor Ramon]

You're Canadian. You guys prosecute free speech up there. We aren't supposed to down here so yes it's a legit gripe.

[Drewbacca]

I understand the issue. I even agree. It's just too much of a taboo argument for most people (politicians especially) to get involved.

[Diff-chan]

Well, that's part of the problem. Obviously no politician is going to go out there and defend that sort of material. But that's also why we have a Supreme Court with the power of judicial review (in theory).

[Fe 26]

There are obscenity laws on the books and Miller vs. California established guidelines for what is not protected speech. So it wasn't because they were underage looking but that they were "obscene."

Obviously enforcement of those provisions ebbs and flows. Bush brought it back with a vengeance for obvious reasons. I do believe Obama kept up with a few of those cases for some reason.

I don't like obscenity laws either. They pretty much allow states to nullify free speech.

As they are written, someone could go to jail for sending gay porn or interracial porn to Podunk Bumblefuck AL or MS because the average person might find one or the other to be disgusting.

[Diff-chan]

Yea, that's that fun community standards test. It sucks but that's the law.

[Nash]

It wasn't so long ago that some random asshole got his life ruined because he stock piled stupid ped hentai books.

As far as the law in concerned, ped hentai books, 16 year olds sending each other nudes on their phone, and uncle buck taking pictures of his nude 12 year old spreading it, are all the same.

Actually, they're not all the same. Under Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, drawings of child porn is protected under the First Amendment because the production of them do not harm real children. So don't worry, you're safe with your collection of hentai kiddie porn.

[Thief Silver]

I just read about that case, it's hilarious that the dissenting opinion was "Soon we won't be able to tell if child pornography is real or if it's computer generated."

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

We will always have fe26 or someone like him willing to intensely study the pics and their every detail in order to divine whether it is real or not.
If i were a ped, i would become an fbi ped hunter.

[No One]

Thought crimes division?

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

No, the "i have to dig through these computers and look at all the terrible (snicker, snicker) kiddie porn" division.