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   From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   Zoolook wrote:   
   > On 28/06/2010 12:44, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
   >> Zoolook wrote:   
   >>> I am not commenting on any particular manga here, but sometimes the   
   >>> subject matter can be... questionable at best! Incest, murder,   
   >>> drug-use... these are not uncommon subjects! Perhaps the US government   
   >>> (under the belief that these "comics" and "cartoons" are aimed at the   
   >>> younger audience) have deemed the material illegal!   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> (A) The U.S. Government has a founding principle of Free Speech which   
   >> pretty much forbids them to make anything illegal on such a basis. Local   
   >> governments MAY do so, but they risk being overruled on constitutional   
   >> grounds. There are VERY few exceptions to the Free Speech basis, and   
   >> many of the APPARENT exceptions aren't; they're ones in which you're   
   >> free to say whatever it is, but you must take the consequences for   
   >> having said it.   
   >   
   > I admit to not knowing the ins and outs of US law, since I don't live   
   > there.  The free speech argument is only going to get you so far   
   > anyway... its constantly being chipped away with legislation, on both   
   > sides of The Pond!   
      
   	For every successful chipping on this side, someone else manages to   
   UNchip. I don't know of any long-standing successful laws that oppose   
   free speech that don't boil down to the "Shout Fire in a Crowded   
   Theater" approach.   
      
   >   
   >> (B) If banning such material were legal, there are literally thousands   
   >> if not tens of thousands of books, movies, etc. which should be banned.   
   >> In general, we don't do such things, and local banning attempts usually   
   >> end up collapsing under public pressure and mockery. I would not support   
   >> any legislation that permitted such restrictive measures.   
   >   
   > But censuring material IS commonplace... isn't there still a long   
   > standing argument ensuing over Intelligent Design... specifically that   
   > some states ban material that denies it?   
      
   	No. There are states which have legislated that schools must teach   
   Intelligent Design (and often they've been told otherwise and had to   
   back down), but none that I am aware of which have actually BANNED it.   
      
   	Banned means you can't get the material legally. This is not the same   
   as "you can't teach this material in our publicly-funded schools".   
      
   >  And that's not really in the   
   > least bit offensive to the majority of citizens (one would hope at least)!   
      
   	The idea that there's people even debating whether the basic theory of   
   evolution is correct or not is offensive, but that's another discussion.   
      
   >   
   > But I do agree that, from what I have seen in Anime/Manga recently...   
   > its very much school grade compared to alot of Hollywood releases!   
   > Indeed, maybe THIS might go some way to explain the problem??   
      
   	Eh? Which problem? It certainly doesn't seem to have anything to do   
   with the distribution issue.   
      
      
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