Fiktiivisen lapsipornon kielto

Kaimani kirjoittikin jo aiheesta, joten en vaivaudu itse kirjoittamaan pidemmin.

Sen sijaan lainaan Neil Gaimanin, monien arvostaman kirjailijan ja graafisten novellien käsikirjoittajan (mm. Sandman) tekstiä. Ilmaisun vapautta, myös inhottavan ja iljettävän ilmaisun vapautta kannattaa tukea.

The first time I ever came close actually to sending a publisher to prison for something I had written was about 1986 or 1987, for Knockabout’s Outrageous Tales From The Old Testament: I’d retold a story from the Book of Judges that contained a rape and murder, and this was held to have contravened a Swedish law depicting images of violence against women. The case was only won when the defense pointed out that the words were from the King James version of the bible, and that the images were a fair representation thereof…