What is your opinion on this?

[KontanKarite]

http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-29677.htm

[PortraitOfSanity]

It protects kids from sexual predators looking to make a quick buck on porno. Fine by me.

[Wednesday Friday Addams]

Originally Posted by PortraitOfSanity

It protects kids from sexual predators looking to make a quick buck on porno. Fine by me.

I am pretty sure drawn characters goes under this as well from the brief look I did. Which is just stupid.

[PortraitOfSanity]

"Actual human beings engaged in sexually explicit conduct".

It's about having to prove the actors' ages when you produce pornography, I don't see how you could misinterpret any of this into a 1984 conspiracy theory.

[KontanKarite]

From what someone told me, not that that person is very bright, is that it broadens the scope of what is and is not pornographic. So now, to their understanding of it, a swimsuit model doing a photoshoot is pornographic.

It's kind of hard for me to believe though.

[Wednesday Friday Addams]

Originally Posted by PortraitOfSanity

"Actual human beings engaged in sexually explicit conduct".

It's about having to prove the actors' ages when you produce pornography, I don't see how you could misinterpret any of this into a 1984 conspiracy theory.

Hmm I just did a brief look through it. I thought I found something on drawn visual representation of a minor but I could have imagined it.

[$haDe]

Too many letters !!!

My brain is overheated !!

Arrrrghh!!!!

[$haDe]

whether the setting of the visual depiction is sexually
suggestive, i.e., in a place or pose generally associated with sexual
activity

Okay... A pic of a boy in the bedroom is illegal, now.

[Sanguine Heart]

Originally Posted by $haDe

Too many letters !!!

My brain is overheated !!

Arrrrghh!!!!

I had the same Reaction .

[Albert Mond]

Here's your answer, fellas:

(A) * * * actual or simulated--(i) sexual intercourse, including

[Albert Mond]

Furthermore:

These statutes recognize that a child may be harmed both physically
and psychologically in the production of visual depictions of simulated
sexually explicit conduct, even if no sexually explicit conduct
actually takes place. Furthermore, producers of visual depictions of
actual sexually explicit conduct often substitute a visual depiction of
simulated sexually explicit conduct (so-called ``soft-core''
pornography) in place of the actual sexually explicit conduct; then the
soft-core pornography is often distributed more widely than the
unedited version of the same production. In such cases, the protection
of children from exploitation in the production of a visual depiction
of actual sexually explicit conduct necessitates that producers of
visual depictions of simulated sexually explicit conduct also be
required to maintain records and label their products.

[PortraitOfSanity]

Right, but it's not putting restrictions on soft core porn. It's putting restrictions on soft core porn with kids in it.

[Albert Mond]

Originally Posted by PortraitOfSanity

Right, but it's not putting restrictions on soft core porn. It's putting restrictions on soft core porn with kids in it.

'Softcore Porn' is an extremely disputable term (rather like 'porn'). A real pedophile could be turned on by anything that includes kids. Also, from what I understand, "Simulated Porn" refers to drawings.

[PortraitOfSanity]

It restricts doing the following, if it's involving a child:

(i) Actually filming, videotaping, photographing, creating a
picture, digital image, or digitally- or computer-manipulated image
of an actual human being;
(ii) Digitizing an image[ ] of a visual depiction of sexually
explicit conduct; or, assembling, manufacturing, publishing,
duplicating, reproducing, or reissuing a book, magazine, periodical,
film, videotape, digital image, or picture, or other matter intended
for commercial distribution, that contains a visual depiction of
sexually explicit conduct; or
(iii) Inserting on a computer site or service a digital image
of, or otherwise managing the sexually explicit content[ ] of a
computer site or service that contains a visual depiction of,
sexually explicit conduct * * *

Look, argue all you want. It's about prosecuting child pornography. It will have no effect on anything else.