Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Reid to ban Entartete Kunst?

Just read an interesting article on the Register saying that John Reid has floated the idea of legislation designed to outlaw the possession of computer generated Entartete Kunst. Specifically the issue relates to the anomaly that it is illegal to distribute computer generated images of child abuse, but it is not illegal to possess them.

The Register makes an interesting point though regarding whether such laws might extend into the area of role-playing games, they argue that, "[b]izarre as it is, on the much-hyped VR environment Second Life, some subscribers represent themselves as children, in the expectation of being abused."

Something that springs to mind as another grey area would be Japanese hentai which, like it's less sexually explicit Anime cousin, has a tendency to portray it's characters as particularly child-like in appearance (although not in action in either case). I guess we shall just have to wait for the Home Office's consultation paper on the issue.

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