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.
Cause it's a door you DON'T want to open. Because you're dictating fictional content to be banned than the sensible approach of giving age appropriate content to....the ages appropriate. No one, but leftists, is advocating giving porn to kids, even the lolicons.
I don't, it's a drawing. I'm not giving human rights to a drawing just as much as I'm not giving human rights to my roomba let alone if we make a robot with advanced AI. They aren't living things so don't apply 'living rights' to inanimate objects.
You don't like it, don't view it since because it's niche it's only on certain websites and places that have similar art. If you're talking about loli in general, that's a body type like Milf or Tomboy is a body type. There are actually women petite and short with that body type, a lot from Asia so no surprise it's in their art. If you're exclusively about the sexual stuff where they appear underage, I don't like it but it's a drawing so won't search for it so don't see it, like how I don't have a Twitter account so have extremely limited interaction with Ethots.
Tired of the same argument that loli stuff be banned in the west because it's 'incompatible with our society' meanwhile the rest of the world thinks effective advertising for the West is putting a tranny on screen while their home advertising is cute girls or families happy together. This ain't a good hill mate.
Exactly. It's an extremely dangerous slippery slope, and I think it amounts to falling for a leftist trap. Basically, the right has to go hard, or be very careful about handing ammunition to the left. Unless they're going to take over everything and go full authoritarian, unless they're going to fight by leftist rules and abandon their principles, this will backfire hugely.
I've said it before, but I think the most dangerous attack is getting a foot in the door on government age-verification. And the thing people fail to realize is, it's not just "asking children" for ID. You by definition don't know their age until you get their ID, so this is asking everyone, and it goes downhill very fast to stopping adults from looking at certain content. "Think of the children" is bullshit manipulation, and the right is falling for it.
My go to example is, imagine if they push the gun purchasing age to 21 federally. I can easily see the government telling adults (18, 19, 20) they can't access firearm content. And, by extension, any sort of militia or even general freedom or anti-government content. It's not even that far down the slippery slope. There's no limiting principle.
The right is retarded to push more authoritarianism, even if we agree the morals are correct, if they're not willing to go all the way. If we want to ban loli/porn, it can't be done while leftists control law and society. Any attempt will backfire massively. The right is once again trying to operative within the current framework, when they can't win within the current framework. This can't be done halfheartedly. Unless they go full authoritarian or Rules for Radicals (which I'm not advocating for, by the way), any laws made is just more tools for the leftists currently in power to oppress us more. This isn't about porn, this isn't about loli. This really is, for me, about a very real worry that this will all come down on people like us, the enemies of the Regime.
The left will do what they want regardless
And maybe the right shouldn't help them erode our rights, is my incredibly controversial point...