The obscenity laws that 6A keep quoting are pretty clear. Thing is, when it all first exploded and LJ were trying to fix the mess, they said that they'd be abiding by US obscenity laws (which say stuff about no graphic sexual depictions of people under 18, fictional or not, apparently), they quoted all this, and then the screaming fankids ignored it and claimed that LJ had never mentioned this when the user got banned for the Snarry pic. Giving them links is quite funny, things were clearly stated. This doesn't mean that LJ went about things the right way, but the info was in the news posts, ignoring it doesn't mean it doesn't apply to you.
The US obscenity laws are harsher than the UK ones.
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Date: 2007-08-29 08:18 am (UTC)The US obscenity laws are harsher than the UK ones.