[HPFGU-Feedback] RE: ADMIN: Possible Threat to HPfGU lists

[Heidi Tandy]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:44am, IggyMcSnurd wrote:
> It doesn't matter if 16 is the age of consent in the UK.
>
> Yahoo is based in the US, and is bound by the laws of the US with 
> regard
> to issues relating to sex with minors.

True, and that's why the recent supreme court ruling that 'virtual' 
child pornography cannot be prosecuted the way child porn that actually 
involved children in the creation of said porn can.

In other words, in the US, the Supremes have barred barring novels, 
discussions, factual papers, and even art about fictional children 
engaging in sexual behaviour. I know this sounds icky to some, if not 
many, but it's just what the law says.

If we were talking about real children, Iggy, I'd be backing you up, but 
we're not, and because we're not, Yahoo can't bar us from discussing 
sexual topics as applied to characters in the HP books by any means 
other than specifically saying so in the ToU and/or guidelines, and 
actually, the Guidelines themselves simply don't go that far.

Heidi