The Philippines has based a draconian ban on child pornography which means a potential life sentence for possessing books, comics or artwork considered by authorities to depict a child involved in sexual activity.
Republic Act 9775, “the Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009,” previously reported here, has now been signed into law, and its provisions seem to be far more severe and far-reaching than previously imagined.
Producing, distributing, “promoting” or possessing anything defined as child pornography attracts anything up to a life sentence and a fine of 5 million pesos ($110,000).
The ban sweepingly defines child pornography as “any representation, whether visual, audio, or written combination thereof, by electronic, mechanical, digital, optical, magnetic or any other means, or a child engaged or involved in real or simulated explicit sexual activities.”
Alongside actual pornography featuring underage participants (which was already illegal), the ban clearly makes no distinction between fictional and non-fictional material, prescribing the same extreme penalties for both.
With no clear definition of “explicit sexual activities,” it also seems authorities are free to apply their own standards of judgement.
The ban on textual and audio material would also appear to define even talking about child sexuality as child pornography, and undoubtedly bans a variety of literary works featuring underage sex.
Possessing Vladimir Nabokov’s literary classic Lolita, considered one of the best English novels of the twentieth century, would certainly seem to attract a possible life sentence under these provisions.
As is usual with such laws, those under 18 writing about or recording activities with other “children” also face the full weight of the law, so in theory a minor could be handed a life sentence for writing about having sex with their partner, although presumably in such cases judges might decide to be lenient.
Internet service providers, hosts and owners of business premises are also enjoined to monitor for and quickly report any offending activity.
One of the authors of the bill rejoices at her success:
“We used to be a haven for child pornography proliferators and foreign pedophiles, now our country is going to be a safe haven for children.”
Displaying its usual commitment to freedom of expression, the EU expressed its delight with the draconian bill through its ambassador:
“It is extremely a positive step forward to fight child pornography. We are pleased that the legislature passed the bill and the President signed it into a law on November 17.”
Unsurprising considering international pressure was one reason for the ban.
Leaving aside the issue of the poorly written nature of the law, actual enforcement of the law is unlikely to be very effective, as the Philippines is by any estimation a chaotic and corrupt nation unable to enforce its existing body of laws, let alone any new ones. However, this is in itself hardly reassuring…
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That is one ugly loli.
lol Philippines. they probably think that this law will help them be better perceived as a civilized and industrialized nation...too bad outside of big cities they are still basically a third world country.
How the hell are the big cities civilized or industrialized?
OH. I SEE HOW IT IS.
For once, I'm glad I wasn't born in the Philippines.
How TALL is Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, anyway!
They should elect a TALLER MALE President.
We did elect a tall male president but the midget run him off and forcibly proclaimed herself the smallest president in the world.
I shall return.. when lolis are not banned
Possessing Vladimir Nabokov’s literary classic Lolita, considered one of the best English novels of the twentieth century, would certainly seem to attract a possible life sentence under these provisions.
Not sure I have met or have heard of any one that thinks that book is one of the "best English novels" Actually I do not know any one that has read it or even saw the whole movie, with Jeremy Irons. A much better film was The Girl by New World films.
Time, for one. There are many others - perhaps you only associate with philistines?
Wait a minute, I though the church here is not supposed to get invovled with politics, since this bill is politically motivated (with courtesy of those feminazis), why did the church got involved in implementing this law?
Because the church is more powerful than the state?
Another senseless law past, this law has more loop hole than swiss cheese...
CURSE you GMA
People HER height OR SHORTER shouldn't run for public office!
She's probably concerned she's so short she'll get mistaken as a loli, and someone pwn her sexually as a result. This law is meant to protect her by putting away for life, anyone who might be a danger to her (hm, sounds like a dictatorship doesn't it).
So just by viewing the front page of this site can get you life. Great law there.
Let the criminals, rapists, drug dealers go while they arrest people with loli porn. Only in the Philippines. As expected in a country that is swarming with idiots. Don't believe me? Go ask other Filipino people here.
*sigh* I feel so ashamed... Why must my country be so narrow minded and stupid? Why God! Why!?
Fuck this shit. Those who possess '2D child pron' are easy prey in the first place than those bigass motherfucking rich criminals (i.e. Mike "Fat Pig" Arroyo).
Bottomline: In here, the rich always escape justice because they are above the law. PHAILippines all the way.
Ah yes, the rich people, you gotta hate them, once they are caught having loli stuff, they can just pay the government and get away with it and continue enjoying their lolis
And its not 2d lolis but the very cp that this law is trying to prevent.
F*ck!(x100)
I really friggin hate my country! Just when I'm starting to think that it's starting to develop it ends up like sh!t again. I thought this country can tell what's the differences between reality and fantasy... Just look outside the computer and into the streets, poverty and filth, that's reality. Would the government please work on that?
don't worry fafi, were all in the same boat, so to speak.
THIS IS NOTHING BUT A PAPER LAW.
a pamphlet to get higher votes..
an addon to our country's letters demanding foreign aid..
here's an example:
-=-=-==--=-=-==-=-=-=-=-
Dear big country,
We are good poeple, give us moneys..
We banned loli, Give us moneys..
Thanky you,
The great Midget.
PS: give us moneys.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--==--=-=
A very nice island with BIG CORRUPTION. I'm in a RAGE.
As long as it's not hentai that will result in a life ban, it's all good.
My own country... T_T damn it!
I may live in America but something feels so wrong about this
note to self, never go to philippine. put self destruct in laptop.
I guess I have to encrypt a lot of files in my laptop.....
The Philippines: No longer a safe place for darling little Ukes.
To me, pedophilia has become the new red scare. Just as people in the 50's and 60's were paranoid that their neighbors could be a potential communist, today people have become paranoid over the fact that there could be pedophiles lurking at every corner.
All for the "safety of children" supposedly.
hey you were on /a/ last night...
Lol Bleedman will be fucked, is he still living in the Philippines?
better hide my doujins X_____X
Ahahah, encore un pays de bouseux de merde constellé d'attardés.
Phillipines, funny country.
If a meteorite falls on Earth, I hope it squashes Manila...or Vatican City!!
We already got hit
Ok a little case study here, since I'm not totally aware of this. Lest say somebody owns a hentai manga, depicting a character that seems like a minor (loli of "ambiguous" age) engaging in sexual activities, but there's a statement inside the manga in question saying that all characters appearing in it are supposedly of legal age, and the real age is not mentioned again in the actual content. Is it illegal then?
Eroges/VNs do this to just to be safe.
It fucking blows my mind how something that Does Not Fucking Exist needs to have an age.
Wait a sec, if most animes feature characters under 18 and have fan service episodes putting the characters in sexual situations, does that mean an almost complete ban on anime there?
more like censorship like how 4Kids massacred some anime through censorship
Watch Gundam Wing and the movie Endless Waltz. (it's cleam)
Do NOT watch Strike Witches. (it's definitely NOT clean, unless you have the full-censored version which I made myself using windows movie maker which I ended up cutting out like a third of all the scenes in it)
The Philippines needs a change of government!
Japan did!
Indeed!
The Philippine already had several change of governments and we're still being run like Hell.
after reading all the comments, a few things.
bleedman is a filipino? omgwtf?
this law is so that the midget president can be remembered as doing something right (in the eyes of moralfags, which number more than you might think) before she steps down.
like we'd forget the zte deal and trying several times to pass the charter change. not to mention silencing the media a few times with a few dead reporters here and there and maybe light to heavy treason.
once yer time as pres is up, yer gonna fry midget.
my only hope is this law is amended properly (definitions, limitations, etc etc.) if the next regime does pick it up, or it gets trashed outright.
they should do something about the poverty first specially after ondoy(ketsana?) and a host of other storms hit us before they think about passing a law that even the us could not(probably) enforce.
btw how feasible is it to actually monitor every goddam ip in the country and log every goddam site and download? and then issue a warrant for ALL of them?
besides, won't that go against some laws, its like wiretapping isn't it, which is IIRC illegal, unless there's a warrant for it, or some shit?
Yea wiretapping citizens without warrants is illegal.
Unless your a terrorist.
The US government has been using anti terrorist laws to nab low level marijuanna street dealers.
They probably won't even tell you if they collected evidence through wiretapping they'd use the evidence to search you then never say it was gathered from wiretap but from the search.
What do actual child molesters get then, A slap on the wrists?
arrested then deported usually.
The law is a trick to actualy get rid of men and bash them for everything,emasculate men and bring huge amounts of money for the goverment system when prosecuting people mostly in favor of women,even if the women is at fault.
Creating a huge dsyfunction in society,families,destroying man and womens life if used wrong.Society is already enough dysfunctional in america
I say down with this kind of feministic capitalism.
The law is totaly ok when it goes against real casses and real people to help them.
But when the law goes beyond that like fiction that doesn't hurt anyone and promoting to lock up innocent parents for their normal family pictures and creating a huge misunderstanding in society and paranoa then that society is tend to end up in the path of destruction.
Men are men.When it comes to fiction they are not hurting anyone and are using it as an outlet(some don't need such stuff at all).
HAHAYS this is just another way for politicians to conjure votes by saying "We love children and strive to protect them SO VOTE FOR US!!" anyone find this pathetic excuse for a human being!!
Filipino people are much stronger than law.
These law makers are just acting like their law is working but its not. i really hope that all Filipinos would realize that.
Filipino people are much stronger than law.
These law makers are just acting like their law is working but its not. i really hope all Filipinos would realize that.
Punyeta tong bansa namin~
Ang daming ibang problema tulad ng bagyo at kahirapan eto ang inaatupag ng mga kumag na politiko ~!!!!
No more Kodomo jikan?
Another law authored by some idle politician who can't think of any smarter law to craft. Take it from me, a Filipino, who lives in the Philippines--most of our congressmen are idiots.
Instead of venting your idiocy on some fictitious doodles, you congressmen should show you've got brains and do something about the Reproductive Health Bill.
I'm a filipino but wish born on other country, what I can say about this is just a paper law and won't attract to much attention on mass media. They only care about impeaching politician that did not give a cut to other politician, Philippines is a JOKE!
To put a visual on this, the Philippines is a scared little girl who hans out withe the "cooler kids" trying to gain their respec by agreeing to what others say and copying them.
yes assholes a child is 12 and under 13 is a teen and the bible said that jesus mother wa 13 to 15 years old the world is fucked up it should be fine for a 13 year old to have sex or be nude you just don,t like your nude body same same on you all i love to be nude that was how i was born with no closes aND adam and eve had npo close tell they sined i don,t have any close on now if i had 100 tillon bucks i would give it all to the usa to make child porn legle
First thing to do is watching any further parlamentary meeting and putting anyone being steel bars mentioning child and sex in the same sentence for it being audio metrial that hints at porn and/or abuse. The fine is not to be payed by their salary as this is money of the taxpayers and thus more or less not their own. Would hardly be fair to let the taxpayers pay for their pervert actions. Lifelong sentence is hopefully applied to it's fullest with no chance to revision due to good behaviour, it's kinda hard to molest children in a prison anyway now isn't it?
Death to the midget. We know where she lives. It won't be hard. I'm pretty sure even people who don't care about this piece of news would join in. Here's to hoping the new retard of a president doesn't act on this law.
Shucks, he doesn't care, for as long as he struts his stuff in his Porsche 911 Turbo!!!
He retarded alright... he's got the look down that's for sure.
simple reason to pass this law.
1. to make it seem like they're doing something.
2. distract people's attention from the bigger issues benefiting the bastards.
3. they go for the illustrations because they're more common and easier compared to the actual offenders.
4. they're haters!
my country ban that?! noooooo!!!!!why!? i feel i have been tortured to death.i just hope that our next president (noynoy)remove that law!
Great... now if a Filip pedo wants to get his fix, he may as well just rape a real child, he's gonna the same sentencing either way... so yeah...
I think that in some cases, actual rape would get you a lesser sentence than fictional rape of a 2D image.
this is all nothing but pure bullshit.
i don't believe this shit.
fucking lies i can see a lot of my classmates carrying
loli mangas in school buying it from a mall. right infront of the police but they dont do anything.
these hypocritical bastards should go to hell.
The UK has a similar law in effect, it may not carry a life sentance but to draw, view, or 'store' imagery of any child or 'apperant' child in a sexual act or manner is now illegal, even viewing this post is illegal. the end decision however is with a jury at what is legal and what is not. this, would make it extrodenarly dangerous for Nudists or Naturalists as so far there has been no legistaltion protecting them from this law. it is more a mute point as again the Jury will decide.
But still, i'm surprised that the UK would go this direction then again Anime, Manga and hentai is nowhere near as popular or known here. our Anime culture is probably smaller than the LGBT commuinty so it shouldn't be that surprising as the mainstream poplucae would not be aware of Lolicon and such, but Peodo's probably would be. any Loli artists in the UK, are now screwed.
Why? Because of the header art used for it? But it's not in a "sexual manner" because she's been censored by water ripples. I'm sure a page discussing a law, would NOT blatantly break the law. I'm sure they had lawyers from various countries review the image and deem it to be ok.
Holy shit I live in this country and I don't even know we have this law 0.o
This'll be very bad for Vinz.
Well, there never was any reason to go to that shitty place and there is one less now.
Yes there is! two words: Quezon Avenue
This is pretty much the same as Canadian Child Pornography laws, although supposedly the works have to be proven to possess no artistic merit to be deemed pornography (and consequently, child pornography).
I heard a about a guy who was charged for having erotic stories featuring children (along with the usual real CP, and lolicon drawings). Browsing 7chan's /elit/ board is illegal for Canadians it would seem.
Wha that is really fucking stupid he would have got less time if he kept real loli's locked in the basement as sex slaves.
As for the person who signed this into law I'd like see that person used for medical experiments.
I'm pretty sure if the defendant had the money he'd walk free. I've gotten off with alot whilst visiting the philippines, cops and officials can be bribed fairly easily there.
"The law mandates that child pornography victims be given emergency shelter or appropriate housing, counseling, free legal services, medical or psychological services, livelihood and skills training, and educational assistance. "
Imagine how many 2d Lolis will get free education!
Y'know, the most common work that people own in which underage people explicitly have sex, sometimes without their consent, is the Bible. The Philippines has just made posession of a bible punishable by life imprisonment. Of course, those evangelists who go around knocking on doors are also guilty of promoting such a work, so that's illegal too.
I highly doubt that enforcement would be applied to the Bible, the religious book of the world's BY FAR most popular religion. Also considering that quite a large portion of Philipenos are indeed Christians (this may even have helped SUPPORT the law being made to start with), I doubt that they would even CONSIDER touching the Bible with this law.
Err.. Whatever.. They could only implement all the laws they want but never enforce it...
So I say... WTF....
They just made the Christian bible illegal, btw...
Lot's daughters were definitely under 18, by some accounts 12 and 14. That was Crumb's only bad, btw, since he likes big, 'natural' people in depicting them kind of meaty when in RL they certainly were lolis...
Not sure the age of Thamara and Juda... You know the anal prostitutes...
-and-
Mary (THAT Mary) was 14-16 when she had you know who...
Now, for the times, nothing unusual or pedophiliac, but in such a sweeping law... Really, in the past such laws were stopped not when they'd make "Romeo and Juliet" illegal but when the technicality could be applied to da "Good Book". "Mysterious ways" indeed!
-----but-----
In a few years when the USA stops being such an influence, I doubt they'll enforce the law. They'll go back to being a flesh pot of all ages and you'd have to shout what you are doing with a megaphone and refuse all bribe offers to get busted for it.
What I'm for, besides the "SeaSteading" option, is a more open "Tong Affiliation" thing. "The rich have the government, the common people the secret societies." Remove the menace and mystery, a lot of "Westerners" would love to become a "Paying Member" of the underworld versus just a customer and in exchange for their helping them with their comfort and freedom of deed and expression would eagerly help them 'set up shop' elsewhere. Imagine getting a "Bride" and adopting a "Son" every couple of years and helping set up a business to hire and get 'green cards'?
Given how AmeriKKKa is sputtering, we might need to form our own "Tongs" to survive and who better to help us set them up than members of real Tongs?
Just curious but which passage in the Bible does make the story of Job be classified as promoting pedophilia?
I meant it could be "Technically" classified as illegal under that law.
LOL at "a chaotic and corrupt nation." That's "a chaotic and corrupt government" for you. I don't particularly consider myself a corrupt person...
What with his constant coverage of this anti-child porn law (whose effects, I assure you, are hardly felt here), Artefact must really have a soft spot for the Philippines.
Shit, a life sentence for this?
Not even pedophiles and child molesters are treated this harshly...
so does this mean, people who have artbooks and mangas with loli style characters are WORSE than pedophiles and child molesters?
LOL! once again...the human race shows their wonderful reasoning skills...
better hide my artbooks before people start calling me a child molester....
Wha what a really stupid ass law it seems it could be abused to jail anyone.
Really the Philippines needs another insurrection and have President Arroyo publicly drawn and quartered.
I swear there's always a troll here that post on these topic's that basically says "IT'S OKAY TO BE PEDO!"
''We used to be a haven for child pornography proliferators and foreign pedophiles, now our country is going to be a safe haven for children''
never knew this existed here or i'm just not watching enough news?
how bout focusing on issues that affect / help the economy, rather than crap like this... idiotic politicians...
why not revolt and overthrow the midget? peaceful or bloody one it doesn't matter...,as long as it purges those you deemed unfit to rule,those who rob the governments pockets,even if you guys were ruled by nations before you have proven you can put up a fight even with the odds against you...look at the long term effect...
Erm, the midget joined Congress.
I think its also indicated there that ISP providers need to monitor cp activity.
We are best friends with China afterall......
Yet another country overreacting to pedophilia. Loli hentai is not real; no real little girls are harmed; get over your preachy, righteous, moral thumping selves.
i agree
hahahaha a new law??? puhleeeeeaze! they can't even make the old ones work right (even forgot some of them). it's just a whole lot of bullshit and lip service. remnants of the country's colonial past brainwashing of "wanting to make the masters happy", which in this case are the rich industrialized nations.
Don't even think about the implementation because it'll never happen why? Because the country's got a zoo for a senate, and wild monkeys for congressmen.
I'm ammused on how many Filipinos are in SC xD (I'm one too just a lurker though)
hehe.. +1 to Pacman for Prez :D
we should have impeached her a long time ago. Damn!
Hahaha, I have already given up on my "former" country. I left because I can see no future, it's corrupt system will just go on and on. If they elect another corrupt idiot, then it's true that Filipinos are idiots too.
"If they elect another corrupt idiot, then it's true that Filipinos are idiots too."
That's because all thanks to the elite and the media which continues to manipulate the minds of the people by feeding them 'rubbish' shows, etc.
Filipinos are not idiots in the first place, but they chose to become as one.
And those who chose not to become an idiot are so pissed off that they fucking want to leave the god-forsaken land.
Amen brother, but there are sensible people there too, unfortunately they are far too few, or too young to be heard. What we need is a great social upheaval to rid ourselves of politicians, media, and the elite. We must destroy the corrupt institutions and re-educate the masses. What we need is REVOLUTION led by youth.
Thank you Arroyo. Now I wish Altair/Ezio's descendants will brutally assassinate you as well as the senates who came up with this sh**t.
Anyway as a Filipino myself, this just give me another reason NOT to comeback to that third-world country.
Now that you live somewhere in another country, you pridefully call Philippines as "that third-world country" when clearly, you, yourself admit that you're a Filipino. What kind of mindset is that?
I'll give you another reason not to come back.
Because you're a fag. And you cry about not seeing some child's private parts whether be it on anime or live.
If you can't say anything nice, say nothing at all.
Denial and butthurt is strong in this one.