Grabbed from MeFi
Man Jailed for Boy-Sex Stories
IN WHAT is considered a Territory first, a man has been sent to jail for possessing fictional text stories about sex with children.
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"It should be obvious to any person that material like this is legally and morally wrong and taboo in the Northern Territory and Australia generally," the magistrate said.
Mr Trigg said the danger of the stories was they "create the perception that this might be acceptable."
"There is also the potential that the written word may encourage someone to act out what they've read," he said.
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Harry Potter slash fiction comes to mind.
So what... there are thousands of novels in which murders takes place... so we should ban those as well and jail the authors and anyone who possess those books?
This feels like something out of 1984. Thoughtcrime from 1984, and Precrime from the Minority Report = )
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