I know there is never a 0% chance of me being safe from the law, but one thing that helps is the sites I access (Inkbunny) literally host their servers in Quebec(or atleast did at one point). Kind of showing a disinterest in caring about this law to a degree. Or the fact that there is hundreds of Canadians on sites like e621 and cops really aren’t actively going out of their way to track down these people down to throw them in jail because they access a site with cub/loli art.
I feel like at this point it’s like Canada’s “grey market” drugs. In many areas, people are basically openly selling illegal drugs and the cops just don’t care about specific ones. They shut it down, give them a slap on the wrist and it’s back up the next day.
Or even before pot was legal, it was soo common especially among all those hippies in the 60s/70s and yet it was relatively low risk if you just kept it somewhat quiet.
But you have to watch out for the wrong people finding out. At the end of the day, It is against the law and it can be used against me if I were to be reported or something.
But like even if you look up cases of people viewing/drawing cub art being arrested… well i can barely find any and when looking up the loli situation it’s slightly easier to find but like the first one the popped up was a 2005 article of a man who got caught purchasing manga and importing them. It’s also hard to find the full picture of all these cases but they are far and few between to give me too much worry.
Not to scare you, but Canada is actually very aggressive when it comes to fiction. There are multiple cases and they crack down on that stuff as much as UK. Here are some examples:
In April 2010 the american man Ryan Matheson was arrested for visiting Canada while bringing Hentai on his Laptop. By October 2011 he was charged with possession and importation of child pornography and faced a minimum of 1 year in prison. They go through your electronics and even go out of their way to charge you instead of “just” denying entry.
The images at issue are all comics in the manga style. Consequently, the American has been charged with both the possession of child pornography as well as its importation into Canada.
February 19, 2015 in Alberta a parcel containing a japanese anime figurine was seized. He was charged, but then got a peace bond.
February 4, 2021 a 21 year old man was charged with one year in prison for accessing a site containing hentai. He took a deal and the penalty went to 6 month in prison. (Source: LeDroit, Six mois de prison pour possession de mangas pornos)
You can be incarcerated in a foreign country? Can you post bail and then flee back to your home country, especially given that the 2 countries directly border each other?
Interesting, there are a lot of cases I’ve missed.
The first two, I’m not surprised. The cases I found always included trying to enter the country or trying to import a physical object. Which is always placing yourself at further risk.
The last one is more concerning. I’m curious about the details of how they discovered this.
Canada is a shit hole in that case. It’s honestly sad whenever I see Canadians thinking they are in the right. A canadian weeb on YouTube is clearly a lolicon based on his room tour and time will come when some hero is gonna rescue his Megumin body pillow.
Canada bans lolicon because it supposedly “leads to children being harmed”. However, corporal punishment such as spanking, which is child abuse, IS legal in Canada. Hypocrisy much? See my post here for that: The use of spanking as a punishment - #13 by AgentColeBowl
Canadian law is weird. They also ban anything “with the potential of (leading to) sexually harming children”. I love vague laws where you only get to know whatever u did, watched, or said was illegal when sitting in court.
“I love vague laws where you only get to know whatever u did, watched, or said was illegal when sitting in court.”
It’s similar with obscenity in the US, an obscenity conviction doesn’t require that the material in question to have already been adjudicated to be obscene in a prior case, no, an individual can be arrested for obscene materials before the materials have even been ruled obscene, and then convicted for obscenity even though the ruling of obscenity occurred during their trial and did not exist at the actual time of the supposed “crime”. One might say this a violation of the doctrine of ex-post facto, the courts would say that they don’t give a shit.
Nowadays, the words, “really” or “literally”, are buzzwords, like “racist” or “fascist”. They’re either completely meaningless, or their current “definitions” are so distorted from their original ones that they may as well be meaningless.
I find it best practice to go with what is generally a plurality between Oxford, Cambridge, and Merriam-Webster’s, and Collins’ dictionaries.
Oxford’s dictionary claims that pornography is ‘devoid of artistic value’ but also posits this with a statement that, in this context, the term is derogatory, which the etymology of the term tends to emphasize.
Webster’s is value-neutral, while Cambridge is flat-out value-negative but makes no attempt to clarify that in it.
