The bill explicitly includes "cartoon or animation", but refers to the existing definitions of obscene material when describing what depicted acts are banned. Essentially, any pornographic depiction of a minor, real or not, becomes a felony.
This is an explicit socalled loli/shota/pedo ban, but I don't see how it can ban anime.
The deliberate ambiguity around the ages of many anime characters makes it into something of a gray area. I'm pretty firmly against any censorship unless a real child is being victimized, but as a fervent anime-hater, I think it might also be a good idea for anime fans to stop and think about why that ambiguity is so common, and what it says about the medium as a whole.
here is the bill page: https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=89R&=&Bill=SB20
The bill explicitly includes "cartoon or animation", but refers to the existing definitions of obscene material when describing what depicted acts are banned. Essentially, any pornographic depiction of a minor, real or not, becomes a felony.
This is an explicit socalled loli/shota/pedo ban, but I don't see how it can ban anime.
The deliberate ambiguity around the ages of many anime characters makes it into something of a gray area. I'm pretty firmly against any censorship unless a real child is being victimized, but as a fervent anime-hater, I think it might also be a good idea for anime fans to stop and think about why that ambiguity is so common, and what it says about the medium as a whole.