Interesting Links for 13-09-2012

[andrewducker]

• Some comedians using their fans for coordinated, safetyinnumbers bullying
  (tags: celebrities bullying twitter comedy )
• Legalizing child pornography is linked to lower rates of child sex abuse
  (tags: law pornography children Child_abuse )
• MP calls for outlawing possession of written accounts of child abuse. FFS.
  (tags: law uk freespeech

Comments

[lil_shepherd]

I'm sure you knew more than a couple of the LotR "things". I knew about 40%, at a rough count.

[iainjcoleman]

That Lord of the Rings link could use a trigger warning for arachnophobes.

[gonzo21]

Dear lord, criminalising all written accounts of anything remotely resembling underaged sexual activity. The idiots are trying to ban Lolita again.

Or rather they're going to use it to criminalise anybody they want to criminalise. Because I'd wager most people probably have ~something~ involving a written account of underaged sexual activity in their homes somewhere, be it a book, comic, movie, or something.

I have a copy of Ash: A Secret History in my house, there's a passage in there where Ash is remembering her childhood in a mercenary camp in the late middle ages, where children regularly prostituted themselves. I imagine possession of this would be enough for them to prosecute me under that proposed legislation.

Hell, I have a copy of Alan Moore's Lost Girl. (Which actually I thought would cause a much bigger storm in the tabloid press when it was released, but it seemed to drift under their radar.)

[steer]

I have a copy of Alan Moore's Lost Girl. (Which actually I thought would cause a much bigger storm in the tabloid press when it was released, but it seemed to drift under their radar.)

Yes, I was somewhat surprised that didn't get much attention.

[khbrown]

I think that the UK government should produce pseudo photographs of children, using an identikit type technology, so that paedos can fulfill their fantasies without hurting anyone.

Of course with most such issues there is no prospect of a trial to see if it works.

"Won't somebody think of the children?" Yes, especially the paedos.

[bart_calendar]

Make real child porn illegal. Make Photoshopped fake child porn legal.

Done.

I mean honestly under the laws in some countries people could go to jail for Harry Potter fan fiction and/or illustrations for Harry Potter fan fiction.

Or, really for read A Song Of Ice And Fire, because Dannys is 13 when Drogo bangs her.