http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/EdmontonSun/News/2005/03/04/949839-sun.html (read the second half)
http://thoughtballoons.blogspot.com/2005/03/canadian-customs-seizes-explicit-manga.html
It’s this kinda stuff that makes you lose faith in humanity at times. I believe the article used to contain the phrase “animated child pornography - commonly known as anime”, but I can’t see it there now (I assume it’s the same article). I guess someone told the reporter of the article that he had just branded millions of people of all ages worldwide as pedophiles. That’s real brilliant, professional journalism at its best. Besides, it was manga he was busted for, as far as I can understand from the article.
Oh dear… Thankfully the Norwegian customs hasn’t raided my apartment despite the number of ero-games I’ve bought from G-Collections and Peach Princess, and I know the shipments has been inspected by them on several occasions. Apparently, Canadian citizens can’t feel as safe.
Is it just me? Because it seems like some of us are missing the part of the article where it says the guy tried to set up a sex meeting over the internet with someone and their 5-year-old daughter.
ya it’s just you, coz it’s talking about 2 cases in the article and i did write READ THE SECOND HALF didn’t i? i think both cases are unrelated anyways
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sure, u can still read the first part if you want to but any sane person in this bbs can tell that the focus i want to try to bring across is the second part, not the first.
[This message has been edited by Lamuness (edited 03-11-2005).]
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Originally posted by Nandemonai:
Is it just me? Because it seems like some of us are missing the part of the article where it says the guy tried to set up a sex meeting over the internet with someone and their 5-year-old daughter.
The article deals with two separate people--the guy charged with trying lure the mother and the child into sex, and the guy charged for possessing "animated child pornography."
BTW, I think the latter charge is ridiculous. There's a fundamental difference between child pornography and lolicon manga. The former involves irreparable harm to an innocent child, and the latter harms no one, except arguably the one possessing it. Even if one were to still consider it a crime, calling lolicon manga "child pornography" is disgustingly misleading.
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It's this kinda stuff that makes you lose faith in humanity at times. I believe the article used to contain the phrase "animated child pornography - commonly known as anime", but I can't see it there now (I assume it's the same article). I guess someone told the reporter of the article that he had just branded millions of people of all ages worldwide as pedophiles. That's real brilliant, professional journalism at its best.
Maybe it's just me...but I interpreted that statement completely differently.
Here's a more expanded version of the quote: ""containing thousands of pages of animated child pornography -- commonly known as anime."
I just assumed he meant that the animated child pornography was a subset of anime (which is still off the mark of course). In other words, he intended to say the child pornography was anime. Clearly his wording wasn't the greatest, but I could definitely see how someone not paying attention to their wording could accidentally say something like that.
Right. If I wrote a novel about a murder, have I comitted a murder? If I draw a picture of a murder, ditto? A lot of this, I’ve come to see, is based on racism against the “Japs” and it is frustrating (since my wife and kids are also “Japs”).
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A lot of this, I've come to see, is based on racism against the "Japs" and it is frustrating (since my wife and kids are also "Japs").
I've noticed this a bit too. There's a stereotype flying around about those "weird Japanese" that isn't exactly flattering...
The Japanese people amaze me with all the weird things they can think of. Like toilets that wash your behind. How weird is that!? (not meant in a negative way, quite the contrary)
Incidentally, a Norwegian company has started selling those here, advertising with how they have been widespread in Asia for many years. I gotta admit, I want to try one of those
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Extremely late edit
Never noticed the “h” in “wash” missing… that sentence sounded really odd without it -_-;
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Jesus. No wonder not a single loli hentai, manga, or game has ever been officially released over here. Bastards. Does the law not state somewhere that drawings aren’t real people?