Reading the comments of the people who want it suppressed and didn’t get mass downvoted, I ran into something common:
They want it banned because they believe that the society that they want is completely incompatible with that content existing, or that banning said content is completely consistent with 1A because the US existed for almost 200 years without such content (porn in general, lolisho really only got over here because of anime becoming a sensation) being mass distributed throughout the country.
Going back to lolisho specifically, there’s no way to get around the fact that sexual lolisho art depicts children in sexual situations, and I personally don’t believe that anime looking like it does matters, because that’s still a human out there, so the reaction to it is gonna be what it is regardless. The discussion tends to be a lot more…focused and less calling people authoritarians and pedos when we actually address the elephant in the room, so I might as well do it in the main post instead of a comment.
I’m just a college student that’s not that well informed on why this is being used as a canary in the coalmine, but I’ll let y’all have at it.
There are some very suspicious people, I'll give you that.
This, however, is utter bullshit logic. And, yes, I know you're about to call me a pedo. Pedophile has a very real definition, and people can defend stuff for a wide variety of reasons. Some people defending it are absolutely pedos, no question. But not all.
That's what it keeps coming back to, and this is bullshit. Laws aren't about stopping immoral stuff, not really. That's the job of culture. We need stronger culture. Laws are more about keeping society running smoothly, and too many laws can get in the way, in fact. It's the basic man's law versus God's law debate. There are plenty of things that may not be pleasant, but that would be counterproductive for man to ban via law.
"Ban evil thing I don't like" is a terrible way of writing law. As someone else already said, look at drugs, alcohol, and the like. Any war via law for moralistic reasons usually damages society and good people, and just strengthens the government to do more oppressive shit down the line.
Focus on culture, not making the current system more oppressive, especially while our enemies control most of the levers of power.
And, again, you'll dismiss my arguments as 'lol, pedo,' I know. Even though I agree loli is nasty stuff, and just disagree on your solutions.