On 3 Apr 2006, at 13:13, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 4/3/06, Justin Cormack justin@specialbusservice.com wrote:
It appears that as a cartoon it is probably not illegal in the UK under the recent child protection acts (although it might be covered by wider obscenity laws). It is however probably illegal in New Zealand, so if someone there would like to report it to the police I imagine it will disappear rather quickly. The publicity will not be nice.
Again, legality isn't really the issue. We have lots of illegal material on Wikipedia. But yeah, I really don't want to be reading about how one of our articles has an image of a seven year old being raped in the paper tomorrow.
Do we? I dont actually know of anything else that is a criminal offence in a major country which has general laws protecting free speech, where Jimbo is likely to visit and wouldnt like to be arrested on entry. And where we have an article about the law in question. Maybe we should use the picture to illustrate this?
As opposed to blanket claims of "pictures of masturbation are illegal in some country" and similar that are often bandied around.
Justinc