Twins, 20, jailed for child porn manga - 2 views
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Ariane Beldi on 23 Oct 09NEW GLASGOW - Twin brothers were sentenced in provincial court Wednesday to three months in jail for possessing child pornography.
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Ariane Beldi on 23 Oct 09This is an interesting issue that concerns particularly anime and manga, although not only, because pornography and child pornography constitute such a high percentage of the total production (apprently, close to 50%). Here, we have a typical case where something legal in one country is illegal in many others. Moreover, there is also the issue of freedom of expression, since drawing (like writing, actually) are only expression of fantasies, but not necessarily their implementations, unless the it is about a story that actually took place. Does that mean one should forbid such fantasies to be expressed, whether from a commercial point of view or from an artistic perspective? Of course, many will state firmly that such fantasies can never become art, but that doesn't settle the debate once and for all, in my opinion. On the contrary, I think it remains quite an open-ended issue and one should keep an eye out for its development, as pornography in all its forms and expressions are often used as pretext to resteain freedom of speech and artistic expressions that don't fit a specific politically correct model.