Yesterday an Australian man has lost his appeal against child pornography charges. The Supreme Court of New South Wales upheld a lower court's decision which found him guilty of possessing child pornography.

The child pornography consisted of the Simpson's cartoon characters having sex. Yes, you read that right. You probably have received a few of them in the past, possibly from well meaning friends overseas. Well, its now officially against the law, and possessing them will get you criminal record, and at the very least a hefty fine.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/08/simpsons_supreme_court/

I always thought the justification for censoring child pornography was that children were harmed in producing it. Apparently not.

I heard this story as well. This makes a mockery of our child protection laws. I've seen similar pictures long before the internet was common and they are not erotic in any way whatsoever. They are comical.

Child pornography laws need to be modified so that only material in which a real child (not imaginary)is actually abused is illegal.

This is getting to be a real witch hunt which could see many innocent people charged. There is also the danger that when a paedophile's criminal record is checked, and it is noted that he (or she) had convictions for child pornography, it may be dismissed as possessing cartoons when in fact it may have been real vile images involving children in the worst kind of abuse. Remember the story about the boy who cried wolf.

Not much more than a week ago a man was arrested in Sydney for photographing fully clothed children and charged with child pornography offences. This is scary, as on occasions when I have been photographing items of interest at tourist locations, it is inevitable that a child may be in the image.

If we produce, or reproduce, child porn even in cartoon form we add to the decay of our civilisation...which is rapidly backsliding like the final days of Rome.
The signs are there.

Its the stimulation of the lust by the fantasy (i.e. like cartoons do) thats the trouble.

Those prone to child porn need to be dealt with firmly.

If they were in a 3rd world country they might just get the cane.

We dont need to pamper pedo's...some kill their victims.

I remember a crim who was put in solitary confinment and one of the guards threw in a Bible ...and guess what...the crim gave his life to Jesus and got saved.
He went on to become a dynamic preacher.

The cage and the Bible works well for me as a solution.

I've got an Xmas email of Donald Duck dropping his duds exposing a massive....ummmm.....'wing'. Does that count as beastiality?.

This is insanity. Don't 'spose they found any ACTUAL child porn?. Excessive amounts of 'Simpsons Porn' is nothing more than odd, but criminal?. What about people who own that Japanese anime porn...Hentai?, or something. That the same thing?.

Seriously, I haven't seen much it but what I did see was animated rape. Does that mean I'm guilty of not reporting a fictional animated crime?.

Utter madness.

Madness? This is SPARTAAAAAAAAA!