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by garbagetime on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @11:39PM
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Paintings, sketches, cartoons, etc. of children and of a pornographic nature are legal at the federal level so long as they have artistic, cultural, or [something I've forgotten] merit. Or so I believe - not a lawyer.
Anyway, to make the point in a more straightforward way:
What ought and oughtn't be allowed expression according to the principles of freedom of speech is not a clear-cut thing. There are many different views on it, and to dismiss all those with views different from those who wrote US law is silly.
Do you have any evidence of this? I'm not aware that this is true at all and I don't believe it to be the case.
> Do you believe, therefore, that it is against the principles of freedom of speech that the NZ government has banned them. Yes or no?
No, I believe that freedom of speech comes with limitations and preventing distribution of child porn is a perfectly good limitation to put in place on freedom of speech.