Here is a detailed post about how the South Korean Lolisho ban, posted for reference.
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Arresting artists using pen/pencil on paper or a computer and nothing else is despicable. You are punishing concepts and ideas than 'rescuing victims'.
Those that focus on restraining fiction usually wish to remove the safeguards and restraints of reality.
Yup, that's always been my stance too. I'm no fan of loli (or how passionate/obsessed people on 'muh both sides' get), but I've always found the idea of banning - and especially criminalizing - it absurd and very dangerous.
Some people want to ban all porn, and don't see it as speech (different topic, not touching it here), but banning only specific (and drawn) porn is clearly infringing on speech.
The example I always go to on the loli stuff is, are we really saying if an artist puts pencil to paper and draws a lewd character, the artist can be arrested based on how big or small he draws the tits? It's absolutely absurd.
The issue is S. Korea is charging lolisho like it's child porn, not that they are banning it alongside porn in general.
There would have been no controversy if people ONLY got charged for violating the general porn ban for shit that isn't CP.