If you actually want to talk about censorship as a general principle you'd want to talk about the hard cases, not the easy ones Yeah of course we can all gather together to dunk on the fundies who want Harry Potter banned because it has witchcraft, that proves nothing
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(See also: Half of the "hottest" content on AO3, and all of the content that AO3 explicitly fundraises for so they can have a legal team on call in case a government sends them a takedown notice for obscenity)
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From Hell is my favorite comic and Alan Moore my favorite living writer and I have no idea what to even think or where to begin on Lost Girls.
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Short of... welp I hate this.
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I guess I fall more on the "restricted" column. I'm against telling people what they can and can't create or consume (provided they are consenting adults). But I'm also not for kids reading things meant for adults.
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Books are banned to easily. Huck Fin jumps to mind because it is always getting banned for depicting slavery, but Jim is the only decent person in the story by design. The ban has more to do with whitewashing then anything truly offensive.
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The legal community already hashed this out with a CBLDF getting involved with someone getting snagged at the border for drawings of fictional people under the Federal age of consent. There was a lot of “this may be gross and creepy to you but it’s an important legal standard.”
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The thing is it was no-name manga and not something with a lot of cultural cache (like Lost Girls), so the most I remember from Comics World getting involved was Neil Gaiman fundraising for the CBLDF for the legal fees they were incurring during the fight.
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