Monday 8 December 2008

"Fake Simpsons cartoon is child porn"

From The Metro, some politically correct madness from Australia:

Supreme Court judge Justice Michael Adams ruled in Australia that child cartoon characters could depict a real person. He upheld a magistrate judge's decision to convict Alan John McEwan of possessing child pornography after the internet cartoons were found on his computer.

The animation depicted characters modelled on Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson engaging in sex acts. McEwan, from Sydney, was fined £1,300 and told to enter into a good-behaviour bond for two years. The magistrate had said he would have been jailed had the images involved real children.


For once, I hope that English courts apply the law just as strictly. That way they'll be able to arrest the people who published that famous sketch of Lisa Simpson giving a headless man a blow-job:

4 comments:

James Higham said...

Ban it! Ban it!

Anonymous said...

Headless?

All you need is a little colouring to reveal the mystery man is actually Bart!

http://flickr.com/photos/13808905@N02/2070658195

Mark Wadsworth said...

Aargh! Child porn AND incest.

Anonymous said...

And I'll quote David Cronenberg:

"Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion."