Emerald Apple@AI_EmeraldApple
The UK is one of a few countries that treat fictional drawings such as anime loli illustrations as equivalent to child pornography for possession purposes. This was made illegal by the UK's Coroners and Justice Act 2009 sections 62-68.
This act is insane in that it specifically targets non-photographic stuff like anime, cartoons, manga, drawings, sketches... things that no reasonable person would think are of real child victims. What counts as "grossly offensive, or obscene" in the language of the law is up to interpretation that allows overly sensitive karens to slap artists with insane punishments, with jail time and sex offender registry.
The UK government argues that lolicon content can be used to groom real children, "Fuel" pedophilic urges, and potentially leading to real abuse. In follow-up interviews, they admit that the rationale lacked scientific proof of causation or harm... Studies even show that a possible substitution or cathartic effect exists where fantasy outlets reduce real-world risk. Despite all that, they enacted it based on the idea of "better safe than sorry."
Fiction isn't the same as real abuse, and this creates a punishment for "Thought policing". The idea of drawing, writing, and illustrating is an extension of creative cognition. Making certain thoughts illegal is a massive slippery slope, as warned in many works of fiction, like the book 1984, and lessons from repressive authoritarian regimes around the world.
This kind of censorship, in the end, is not for the protection of real victims but to police the thoughts of its citizens, in hopes of creating a harmonious utopia where all deviant thoughts are erased from the population... because it doesn't stop at just illustrations, it keeps morphing, metastasizing, and spreading into other "deviant" thoughts just like so many repressive regimes has done. In the end, the powers that be in the karenocract want compliant NPCs for which the government can have its way.
Meanwhile, as I say... There has been over a decade of documented failures in actual grooming gang UK abuse cases, where real CHILD victims were ignored because "racism is bad". Fucking clown country.
The UK isn't a full authoritarian state... yet... but it is on its way, and the endgame is going to be ugly as hell.
