Discussion South Korea court rules explicit anime and manga drawings are images of child sex abuse

South Korea’s Supreme Court has overturned a lower court decision and ruled that sexually explicit drawings of teenagers in “anime” cartoons and “manga” comics should be considered images of child sexual abuse.

After issuing its ruling on Thursday, the court ordered a retrial for the operator of a file-sharing web site accused of violating the child protection law for distributing video clips that included depictions of characters in school uniforms engaging in explicit sex acts, The Korea Herald reported.

The defendant, only identified by his surname, Lim, had previously been found guilty of sharing pornography for profit for nearly three years from May 2010 and fined GBP 3,378.

Lower courts had stated, however, that it was “unreasonable” to prosecute him on charges of disseminating images of children being abused simply because the characters in animated drawings wore school uniforms and had a “young appearance”.

The lower courts said more evidence that the characters were under the legal age of consent would be required to go ahead with a prosecution.

The Supreme Court has overturned those decisions, ruling, “In the perspective of a common individual in our society, the contents of the videos demonstrate what can be seen to be teenagers”.


It is not clear what punishment Lim might face, as child campaigners have been critical of the 18-month prison term given recently to a South Korean national who ran one of the most extensive dark web child abuse sites ever uncovered.

Law enforcement officials in 18 countries around the world, including Britain, announced in October the break-up of the Welcome to Video child pornography web site, which was operated by Jong Woo Son.

The site relied on the anonymous Bitcoin cryptocurrency trasnsactions to sell access to 250,000 videos depicting child abuse, authorities said. In connection with the case, authorities rescued 23 underage victims in the United States, Britain and Spain.

The South Korean court’s decision is also in contrast to authorities in Japan, the home of anime and manga.

The Japanese government finally passed legislation in 2014 that outlawed the possession of imaged of child sexual abuse, but did not criminalise sexually explicit images of children in anime and manga.

Campaigners against child pornography were unable to defeat Japan’s powerful comic and animated movie industry, which successfully argued that as the images were merely drawings there were no “victims” and therefore no crime was being perpetrated.

Artists, writers and publishers also claimed that imposing bans on their work would be an infringement of their freedom of expression, which is protected by the constitution.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...ules-explicit-drawings-comics-cartoons-child/

 

Finally!
Let's not kid ourselves.
If you feed the monster, it grows stronger

 

We must protect the loli’s!

 

How ignorant! Hv they not heard of hentai, cosplay and legal loli?!

 

Next step is to take away the rights of all women of petite constitution and youthfull appearance cause they look underage.

 

More fictional evidence is necessary, I'll look into it.

 

This is the country that has banned porn. Crazy is as crazy does.

 

So jail times are fucked up, instead of looking into animes, how about they look into worlds most serious hidden camera issue, the ones that get caught gets 2 months at max, and courts say women who filmed against their consent "is no issue"

 

while im not into loli hentai and it won't affect me in any way I can see ppl having a fetish for small physique just like there is fetish for tall women or men and ppl that like feet or that like s$m or smell fetish or some other kinks. it's part of being human. most of this against loli character and banning loli, school girl/boy hentai is mostly fear that this might condone rape, underage rape and so on all of this is fed by fear.

 

You could also argue that banning porn might create a wave of sexually frustrated creeps trying to get their dose of excitiment in real life. Hence more rape.

 

Australia is a perfect example they legalized prostitution and rape statistic actually went down. all they did was allow the opening of brothels and all their women would get tested for STD this helped unplanned pregnancy go down along with rape and STD.

 

False information bitcoin is not anonymous nor was it ever designed to be anonymous.

Haven’t most countries banned or majorly restricted porn though? Or is that just prostitution?

 

oh so from children abuse turn to kick fiction loli fumu well play~
sometime I think there weird law passed here and there then I remember law is crop of compromise of various factor and may change as time pass

imo all back to how someone interprete thing~ those who can't differentiate fiction and reality indicate such person have problem~ if it on large level such as certain part of country population then it mean dood that country need some deep investigations on multiple sector

not false~ anonymous mean hard or imposible to tract who actually own it~ or too sensitive to disclose~ hard to do but not impossible~ there various way to manipulate legal document~ as long as human create it there never perfecr system

 

Next step will be censoring what they don’t like, viva freedom!

 

Welp, I think I can't go to South Korea with title like this

 

Ai-chan smells politics, and it stinks like some unwashed hobo's ass.

 

Let's be honest here: while a lot of the lewd pictures of anime/manga anime girls <18 (biologically and/or physically) might not be kiddy porn from a legal standpoint, they are or are very close to being that from a practical standpoint.

 

elaborate your practical standpoint
if it mean just for fap then I see no problem~

porn kid is problem when it use real kid to make porn~


roleplay is ok

 

No, I don't mean for fapping! I am talking the sexual exploitation or sexual depiction of characters below 18 as potentially being such in practical terms. It might not be! Honestly, from a practical standpoint, sometimes such images do border on being porno!

 

@Kadmos1 Don't stand down. I totally agree with you. Why should there be a distinction between a human minor (<18), and an animated depiction of a minor? This is NOT roleplay. Possession of child pornography (whether for masturbation purposes, or whether they were actively involved in contributing to its development, etc) is a felony. People who argue that animated minor porn is "ok" are just trying to split hairs.
Next thing you know, there could be sex robot lolis/minors. And the pedos out there will argue that they are fictional/not real/whatever and therefore its ok. Give me a break.

If it were adults (human or animated) roleplaying as minors, then sure, it's technically legal. There are always adults that look prepubescent. I find it weird, but whatever floats your boat.