Posted on: 01/20/19 11:38AM
MidbossVyers said:
lozertuser said:
This is no different than the loli thread we had. All states technically allow it, as the US Supreme Court ruled it legal, but some may have laws that don't allow it. Those are the states you will have to fight and take back to the State's Supreme Court, which is costly, and will end the debate in that state about the legality of such content.
Link to the federal law, please?
Someone linked it earlier. If you read through it you will find it had an expiration date requiring it to be renewed. This was never done. Currently there is no federal law regarding drawn porn. In accordance with the 10th amendment, each state may make such laws as they wish. I'm not currently aware of any such laws.
Even real child porn was legal (with caveats) until the 1970s. Sex between minors and adults was outlawed in the 1930s for prostitution tax evasion reasons so new CP made in the US could only be solo or child-on-child but the distribution other CP was still allowed. Miller v. California in 1973 made it so "obscene" pornography was no longer protected by the first amendment. New York v. Ferber of 1983 made it so CP not covered earlier would still not be protected by the 1st amendment. Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition (2002) made non-real porn (and real but non-sexual nudity of minors) exempt from the previous ruling. The PROTECT Act of 2003 tried to bring it back but a judge struck it down as "how is a cartoon character a person?". The law discussed earlier was a multinational treaty signed by the US in 2004 that banned the distribution of CP content (including drawings/renaissance paintings and other over-reaching aspects of art) for two years but the law-makers let it expire because it was too broad and encroached the 1st amendment.
The PROTECT Act Originally made it so the creation or distribution of CP was "exploitation of a minor" and classed as a violent crime under USC 18 Code 25. It technically still is but the particulars of prosecution fall under USC18 Section 2251 of 1978 and amended numerous times with the latest version being 2008. Here CP is defined as:
(8)“child pornography” means any visual depiction, including any photograph, film, video, picture, or computer or computer-generated image or picture, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means, of sexually explicit conduct, where— (A)the production of such visual depiction involves the use of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; (B)such visual depiction is a digital image, computer image, or computer-generated image that is, or is indistinguishable from, that of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; or (C)such visual depiction has been created, adapted, or modified to appear that an identifiable minor is engaging in sexually explicit conduct.