Re:1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell
by MartinCron on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @06:27PM
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I was wondering if someone would bring that up. The prohibition of virtual child pornography is probably the closest thing to thought crime that we have.
I think that using a particularly narrow example of restricted permissible expression isn't proof that society is getting closer to the totalitarian nightmare of 1984.
Re:1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell
by mhurron on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @08:18PM
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Art, in part, put a guy in jail for 20 years, that is double the average of the crime of actual rape. I think that's going in a direction that we shouldn't go.
Re:1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell
by MartinCron on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @10:11AM
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I agree that it's a direction we shouldn't go, but I don't see it as a new thing or a thing that's getting progressively worse.
"A federal appeals panel has upheld the 20 year sentence of a lolicon found to have received illustrations of underage sex by email, saying that “it is not a required that the minor depicted actually exists”, and so ruling art not to be universally protected free speech."