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Originally Posted by Hammer
4472 and 2257 do not directly affect anime or erotic drawings, but the new changes will have a trickle down effect on the government's definition of obscenity and although you won't have to deal with the record keeping issues, you will have issues. There have been obscenity arrests lately concerning both erotic stories and illustrations so depending on what is depicted in your illustrations, you still need to be concerned.
I'm not saying that the government's attack on our rights of free speech is constitutional, but it's happening all the same.
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Hammer I can understand your concerns but let me explain what's going on here in regard to my line of work.
This Bill is for the general control of real creepy criminal fuckheads. If you're a decent enough webmaster you've nothing to be worried about. It's for those real evil pieces of shit that prey on children. They should be taken out and beaten with an axe handle if you ask me.
Leaning on a person doing illustrations carries with it a very, very harsh penalty regarding 1st amendment rights. Fuck up on a case like that and you will be forking out tens of millions of dollars in recompense. Literature and art are a major no no in prosecution because it carries so harshly a litigation factor of immense magnitude.
However, it's what you do with that art and literature is what can get you in trouble. If you deliberately administer it to underagers, as in this Bill if you read closely, the misleading use to solicit underagers then you're in deep shit. But you have to PROVE that deliberate action. It has to be so obvious it's without question. Ever hear of 'reasonable doubt'?
This Bill is only a means to give law enforcement and prosecutors the extra edge they need to go after the real pieces of deranged shit in our society. That's all. It's not gonna be a witch hunt because Republicans like their porn too.