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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,alt.usage.english
Subject: Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2025 02:47:45 -0400 (EDT)
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Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
><rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>Well, this sort of thing, unspecifically - in England.
>><https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2025/ja=
>nuary/birmingham-teen-jailed-for-terrorism-offences/>
>
>This is in Britain.
>
>I don't think we've reached this point in the USA.

We have not, but there are other countries that are far worse about
thoughtcrimes than the UK is.  Check to see what people get arrested
for reading in Saudi Arabia.

>OTOH, possession of child pornagraphy is a crime.

That's a weird one, because there are cases in which possession of written
works of child pornography are a crime in the US, but there are others in 
which they are not, and the rules do not seem to be clear.

The goal of those laws is to protect children from being exploited to make
child pornography, which is an admirable thing to do.  But written
pornography does not require the particuipation of actual children, and
neither will whatever AI-generated pornography is becoming possible.
It is an uncertain future we are moving into.
--scott
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