Comments on: Now It’s Officially Official

By: Anna Krivankova

Anna Krivankova — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:20:10 +0000

I am late, yet I want to thank You also.
I share Your opinion on this problem.

By: np

np — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 10:10:24 +0000

I appreciate the translations and reports too. But my take is different. The problem is that ban resulted in much more than portrayed forced rape scenes. Practically every fetish and nearly everything a society might consider “abnormal” was also banned as a result.

If you were to extend the same restrictions to anime and manga, which the LDP wants, nearly all of Comiket, as well as current crop of yaoi manga will also be banned.

By: Helen McCarthy

Helen McCarthy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:37:00 +0000

Thaks, Matt. It’s taken me a while to catch up with this, so I appreciated your thorough and honest recording. I also appreciate the updates on the Handley case.

You may not have heard about a case with a similar, though smaller, focus here in the UK – the trial of a former civil servant who wrote a 12-page fanfic about the rape and murder of teeny-pop idols Girls Aloud and posted it on the web. He was acquitted of obscenity today.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090630/tuk-man-cleared-in-girls-aloud-rape-and-dba1618.html

Interrestingly, it appears he was acquitted based on evidence from an Internet expert on ease of accessibility, rather than on content or intent. So it appears that the British courts still hold that there is a right of access to pornography as long as it is not accessible to and does not involve minors.

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By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:20:40 +0000

Thanks, Katherine. It’s good to know at least one person appreciated it. (^_^;)

By: Katherine Farmar

Katherine Farmar — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:52:50 +0000

Thank you for reporting on this matter. I think this decision was the right one, and I’m glad I heard about it from your blog.