December 08, 2008

The Simpsons rip off = child porn. A NSW Supreme Court judge has ruled an internet cartoon in which lookalike child characters from The Simpsons engage in sexual acts is child pornography.

Excuse me, I have some hard drives that require burning. /joke Although, seriously, I have _never_ bumped into child porn on the 'net but I have seen redrawn Simpsons in passing. Which given how browsers work is almost certainly still residing in a cache on my HD somewhere. And is now, according to this judge, sufficient to label me a child pornographer. Delightful.

posted by polychrome 16 years ago
  • Wrong. I'm not a pedlo, BTW, but this is just stupid.
  • "The male figures in the cartoons had what appeared to be human genitalia, as did the mother and the girl depicted in the cartoons." That's an odd way of putting it. Why not simply say, "The cartoon figures had what appeared to be human genitalia?"
  • Justice Adams said the purpose of the legislation was to stop sexual exploitation and child abuse where images are depicted of "real" children. However it was also to deter the production of other material, including cartoons, that could "fuel demand for material that does involve the abuse of children." Now, I don't know how your average paedo's mind works, but I would think that the set of men that gets off on Simpsons paedophile pr0n has only the smallest of intersections with the set of paedophiles in general -- that the guy who gets off on cartoon kiddie pr0n has very little to do with the guy who gets off on regular kiddie pr0n. The suggestion that cartoon kiddie pr0n is somehow a 'gateway' to regular kiddie pr0n, or propping up the market -- I doubt it. Furries don't likely prop up the bestiality market, if I may make that analogy. Now if someone can give me a hand sawing off the top of my skull, so I can scour my brain with bleach, that'd be great.
  • I have a video of Homer Simpson holding what appears to be a handgun, robbing a bank. Will I go to jail?
  • What will the organizers of London 2012 do now?
  • Now, copyright infringement - that's a whole 'nother story.
  • "the mere fact that they were not realistic representations of human beings did not mean that they could not be considered people" Ha-ha! Australia thinks that cartoon figures are people. That they are intellectual property, too, must mean they are chattels. Slavery is legal in Australia! (So long as the figures are involved in figurative unspeakable acts that turn on closet-paedophiliac Australian judges, that is.) Ha-ha!
  • I assume that Lolita is now illegal again? Not to mention some BIG % of the Harry Potter fan fic universe. And did the judge just invent some gateway theory of child porn there? We have to make _this_ stuff illegal otherwise they might move up the chain?
  • Well it's just as well Hello Kitty doesn't have a mouth, otherwise my cock would be right in there.
  • Really? I thought the bar was low enough.
  • Always happy to lower it.
  • To be fair, what doesn't kit want to stick it in? One time, there was this Chinese Finger Trap, and -- well, I'll let him tell the story.
  • Still wearin' it, folks!
  • Judge: Your bestiality appalls me, sir. Just how low would you stoop? Kitfisto: A corgi? ...A dachshund!
  • If the kennel's a-rockin', don't come knockin'!
  • History has gone full circle now... I'm avoiding a visit to this site so as not to end up in a prisoner's hulk, transported to *The Fatal Shore* as a sex slave, probably ending up on Norfolk Island. There to serve under the lash, under the triangle, under a commandant like the infamous John Giles Price!
  • Under the triangle? What, the gayest instrument in the orchestra?
  • Under the triangle? What, the gayest instrument in the orchestra? Let's see... Principal Skinner: I give you the remnants of the Springfield Elementary School Orchestra: on saxophone, Lisa Simpson; on triangle, Martin Prince; and with a flute up his nose, Ralph Wiggum. Yep, it checks out.
  • I've read that the *triangle* was a device onto which the hapless prisoners were tied and flogged, back in Australian Penal Colony days. Doubtless for less cause than watching these Simpson covers (or UNcovers, as it sounds). Commandant Price WAS gay however, even though he insisted on using the wrong KIND of triangle.