Japan bans possession of child porn

[yanpa]

Japan bans possession of child abuse images but law excludes anime
Child advocates say new statute is an improvement but are unhappy with exception for manga and video games

Japan's parliament has passed a law that bans possession of child abuse images, but it excludes sexually explicit depictions of children in comics, animation and computer graphics.

The upper house voted on Wednesday to approve the law, which was passed by the lower house earlier this month.

The law provides for prison terms of up to one year and fines of up to 1m yen ($9,800) for having sexually abusive photographs or videos of children. It allows a grace period of one year for people owning such materials to dispose of them.

The law was first proposed in May 2013 as an amendment to an earlier law that banned production and distribution of child abuse images but not ownership of such materials.

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[Coligny]

Censorship, no matter the topic is bad and ripe for abuse. Goes hands in hands with the re militarization climate these days though...

[J.A.F.O]

Censorship, no matter the topic is bad and ripe for abuse. Goes hands in hands with the re militarization climate these days though...

Read my mind (even though it is akin to reading "Green Eggs and Ham") Wonder if they're even going to try enforcement... and would the diet be exempt of such enforcement?

[Samurai_Jerk]

Though I agree with Coligny and JAFO about censorship, I get why people want to outlaw possession of child porn. However, banning drawings or computer generated images is madness. Remember this case?

[Hijinx]

I'm glad they passed this law: I needed an excuse to clear up some space on my hard drive.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I'm glad they passed this law: I needed an excuse to clear up some space on my hard drive.

[IparryU]

I'm glad they passed this law: I needed an excuse to clear up some space on my hard drive.

:ROFL:

[matsuki]

So.....only one more year of AKB?

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[Samurai_Jerk]

So.....only one more year of AKB?

Shit. You've just made me rethink my stance on censorship. Now I strongly support it.