{"id":634,"date":"2010-02-14T21:17:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T02:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=634"},"modified":"2010-02-14T21:17:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T02:17:13","slug":"634","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=634","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted before<\/a> about the questions around images of children having sex when the images are purely imaginary. That is, they’re drawn or computer-generated and no child was involved at any stage.<\/p>\n

I’ve also posted<\/a> about a guy in Australia who was convicted of owning a cartoon satire of underage Lisa Simpson having sex.<\/p>\n

Now there’s been a conviction in the US<\/a>. A guy who owns a bunch of Japanese Manga, some of which contain drawings of kids being sexually abused.<\/p>\n

I checked out the law itself<\/a>. Among other things, it makes it illegal to produce a drawing of a child having sex unless there’s “literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.”<\/p>\n

As far as I can tell, this means that I’d be breaking the law if I drew such an image myself, for myself, and never showed it to anyone else. That is, as long as anything I used to produce the item was ever brought over state lines. Since my computer was definitely shipped to me across state lines when I bought it, this applies to me. (I assume that my pencils, pens, and paper were as well.)<\/p>\n

And, by the way, I’d also be breaking the law if I attempt such a drawing, or conspire to create one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I posted before about the questions around images of children having sex when the images are purely imaginary. That is, they’re drawn or computer-generated and no child was involved at any stage. I’ve also posted about a guy in Australia who was convicted of owning a cartoon satire of underage Lisa Simpson having sex. Now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-net-and-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}