03-16-2025, 07:41 PM
(03-16-2025, 07:33 PM)Jansen wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-texas-bill-could-make-incredibly-popular-anime-video-games-illegal.1136022/bluexy
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Quote:Texas writes a bill that's designed explicitly to allow Republican attorney generals to hunt LGBT+ youth and their parents, libraries and bookstores carrying LGBT+ books, and social media educating youth on LGBT+ topics, and Dexerto asks, "Wow, could this impact my anime and video games?"Journalist who didn't read the article or the OP at all. First sentence in the OP
Quote:A Texas bill that was unanimously passed by state Senators will, if it gets instated as actual law, will criminalize the possession of any material depicting a minor in "obscene" ways.
Seeing as many stories center around people who are high-school age, any content that depicts characters who are underage in a way Texas law deems “obscene” would be committing a felony offense.
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Quote:I know it's awful not to focus on those issues, and I don't say this to be dismissive at all, but we are ultimately a video game forum, and this is the sort of stuff that might actually resonate with the folks who enabled these systems. We can, and hopefully will, have threads on the other aspects of this bill. And just to be clear, I have no problem with anything that bans the sexualization of younger characters, but that's not what this is all about.
edit: I actually misread your post, I apologize, but i'll leave this up as I think it's a good point still.
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