arcady opened this issue on Apr 16, 2002 ยท 105 posts
kbade posted Wed, 17 April 2002 at 6:51 PM
...though I can't help but make the following OT observations as an introduction and segue to connect the thread back to Poser. Will Congress pass a new law in response to the Court's decision? Almost certainly! Will the new law acually mean anything in the real world? Almost certainly not, as the Court's decision basically says that virtual child porn is to be held to the standards for obscenity, rather than to the lower standard for actual child porn, and the government is already able to prosecute obscenity. Now that the Court has spoken, and is unlikely to change its opinion until its membership changes and/or persons charged with real child porn start making successful "I thought it was CGI" defenses, it would be a good time for R'osity to examine its Terms of Service and the inconsistencies in its enforcement thereof, as I have recently become aware of stuff that is creepy and seemingly in violation of the ToS that remains in the Poser gallery (including a child touching a statue's genitals), whereas several images that did not violate the ToS and which did not even depict genitals heve been banned (some of which Legume mentions above, but at least one other comes to mind). I think the artists here are generally willing to abide by whatever rules R'osity sets (and ultimately must do so because the owners are the owners), but they should be clear and enforced in an even-handed manner. I suspect ScottA may find even these comments to be OT, so I'll dismount the hobby horse now;-)