TheCIAGlowsInTheDark
Remarkable Onion
We now live in a very different world though compared to the world that the Boomers grew up in.They'll try to make it so smaller sites like this very forum will always be at risk, but big tech will easily afford the new regulations and keep their Section 230 protections.
Section 230 also protects user generated content sites from having to worry about patchwork laws like obscenity where every state has their own law. I could see sites like Gelbooru having major issues if they have to worry about states like Idaho coming after them for content users post.
Most of the obscenity laws that are still in the books on either a federal level or a state were passed into law back when the Religious Right used to have more power, before anime and manga became mainstream, and when DARE was still in schools to get kids off drugs (DARE was a failure by the way). Much has changed within the past 40 years. Even people these days don't throw a fit over LGBT representation in pop culture media anymore so long as its done well (back in the day Sailor Moon was censored where the lesbian relationship between Uranus and Neptune was omitted in order to not piss off hypersensitive religious people and these days no one cares that they're gay anymore because social attitudes have changed since the early-2000's and Sailor Moon is seen as one of the GOATs of Japanese entertainment).
If someone were to get arrested and charged under a obscenity offense back in the day, most of society would be arrogantly patting themselves on the back because that's how social attitudes were like back then (much like how people used to stigmatized AIDS as a gay disease where a lot of people thought only gay people can get it but now and days that notion has been thrown out the window due to how retarded that way of thinking is, anyone can get AIDS).
Now and days, Millennials, the Zoomers, and Gen Alpha which are the generations that grew up with anime and manga as we know it have different views compared to the Boomers. You still have people in the younger generations that find anime degenerate but they are a tiny minority compared to the millions that enjoy the shit out of stuff from the East.
If someone where to get charged and arrested over anime shit these days, they would be seen as a free speech martyr in the same way Tommy Robertson and Count Dankula became free speech martyrs when they got screwed over by their own government and millions backed them while rightfully condemning what the Britbong government was doing to them.
The universal consensus that I see on stuff on Japanese entertainment in general (including lolicon and shotacon) on the Internet from what I see is that it's freakishly degenerate but it should not be banned or censored for the same reasons hate speech should not be banned or censored either.
Say what you want about people like MoistCr1TiKaL or ItsAGundam or Rev Says desu or others of the like but they represent the general consensus on stuff like this where they generally preach that anime is degenerate but it should not be banned or censored and none of them are parroting what Leftoids and Kiwi Farms says about Japanese entertainment. If anything, the people that want Japanese entertainment banned or censored based on my observations are usually either retarded Leftoids on Twitter that are still in high school and don't have jobs yet or retarded Rightoids that are still stuck in 2015 and are a part of communities like Kiwi Farms.
I can also imagine that if such a thing were to happen on a large scale, I'm sure some eccentric lawyer out there looking to make a name for themselves will very likely take a free speech case like this and take it to the Supreme Court of they have to. America has plenty of Slipping Jimmies that defecated through a sunroof where they are more than willing to take on cases like these. Just saying.
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