[WikiEN-l] Deleting the Lolicon picture

[David Alexander Russell]

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I think the point that he was making is that perceptions are not the
main problem in a case such as this - many child porn laws make no
distinction between real and simulated child porn images, so
*objectively* these images *are* child porn

Cynical

Philip Welch wrote:
> On Apr 7, 2006, at 4:33 AM, Ryan Delaney wrote:
> 
>>> Some of us feel that even if the image had been free, it still should
>>> never have been included in Wikipedia. Concentrating on its copyright
>>> status is ignoring the real debate, rather than deciding once and for
>>> all how to deal with images that would be perceived by the public to
>>> be child porn.
>> It's not even that the public would perceive that image to be child  
>> porn. It
>> is child porn.
> 
> So it's not whether the *public* would perceive it to be child porn-- 
> it's whether *Ryan Delaney* would perceive it to be child porn.
> 
> "Imagine a world in which Ryan Delaney has free access to the sum of  
> human knowledge..."
> 

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