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Sorry to bring up an old thread but I thought it was worth pointing out that the second reading happened of this bill at the Lords and as dar as I know there were no objections to the sections of the bill that might/might not affect manga and anime. In fact it was the opposite - those sections were loudly supported.Neil Gaiman runs the Comic Book Alliance - they've been campaigning on this for a while now, and one of their suggestions was that people write to the MPs behind the bill and get responses - I tried this, and wrote to three - I only got one response and it was a formulated one, but Maria Eagle's office did emphasise that anything currently legal would not be affected by any change of law - basically saying that if you can buy it now in a shop, it should be fine.I would guess that if your manga/anime collection does not involve large amounts of lolicon then you don't really have anything to worry about - I don't think it's going to affect anyone here directly. However the more important and significant aspect of this bill is that we as a nation are about to criminalise drawings in the 21st Century - all those cliches about the thin edge of a very thick wedge might be truer than you think. It's not a great leap from one form of censorship to another. I have no interest in lolicon, I've never sought it out or gone near it because it holds nothing of interest for me, but I understand it to be drawings and nothing else - the idea that someone could face the same penalties for owning that kind of stuff as another person who has a whole load of real photographic images of child abuse in their posession seems to me to be extremely disproportionate.One last thing - few people seem to have questioned this aspect of the bill - how can you justify sending someone to prison for drawing a picture of a 16 or 17 year old having sex when it is entirely legal to actually go out and do it? In the case of real photos and videos - fine, there's a consent issue - but a fictional drawing? Is there any other act that is legal to do but illegal to draw? Sorry about that - rant over
Sorry to bring up an old thread but I thought it was worth pointing out that the second reading happened of this bill at the Lords and as dar as I know there were no objections to the sections of the bill that might/might not affect manga and anime. In fact it was the opposite - those sections were loudly supported.
Neil Gaiman runs the Comic Book Alliance - they've been campaigning on this for a while now, and one of their suggestions was that people write to the MPs behind the bill and get responses - I tried this, and wrote to three - I only got one response and it was a formulated one, but Maria Eagle's office did emphasise that anything currently legal would not be affected by any change of law - basically saying that if you can buy it now in a shop, it should be fine.
I would guess that if your manga/anime collection does not involve large amounts of lolicon then you don't really have anything to worry about - I don't think it's going to affect anyone here directly. However the more important and significant aspect of this bill is that we as a nation are about to criminalise drawings in the 21st Century - all those cliches about the thin edge of a very thick wedge might be truer than you think. It's not a great leap from one form of censorship to another. I have no interest in lolicon, I've never sought it out or gone near it because it holds nothing of interest for me, but I understand it to be drawings and nothing else - the idea that someone could face the same penalties for owning that kind of stuff as another person who has a whole load of real photographic images of child abuse in their posession seems to me to be extremely disproportionate.
One last thing - few people seem to have questioned this aspect of the bill - how can you justify sending someone to prison for drawing a picture of a 16 or 17 year old having sex when it is entirely legal to actually go out and do it? In the case of real photos and videos - fine, there's a consent issue - but a fictional drawing? Is there any other act that is legal to do but illegal to draw?
Sorry about that - rant over
