Or, alternately, the US laws are a lot more liberal than ours are, but they still have lines that can be crossed—there is an artistic/literary merit test, they've stated that it'd be very hard for fic to cross that line, but pictures can and do do so a lot more easily.
If Jilly's book came attached with graphic pictures? They'd probably still let it through because it (scarily) has literary merit, whereas the two pics that were the cause of the problem really didn't have much merit at all.
Plus the idiots searching for and reporting stuff can spot an obscene pic when they see one, but readin' thos wurd fings?
LJ messed up, big time, and broke their own procedures as well, but the UK laws, last I looked, would clamp down a lot more on such images. Fic would be different though, and is pretty safe (now).
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Date: 2007-08-28 09:50 pm (UTC)If Jilly's book came attached with graphic pictures? They'd probably still let it through because it (scarily) has literary merit, whereas the two pics that were the cause of the problem really didn't have much merit at all.
Plus the idiots searching for and reporting stuff can spot an obscene pic when they see one, but readin' thos wurd fings?
LJ messed up, big time, and broke their own procedures as well, but the UK laws, last I looked, would clamp down a lot more on such images. Fic would be different though, and is pretty safe (now).