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> That only makes sense if your general stance to everything is "forbidden unless explicitly permitted"

Not at all. The UK, just as an example, explicitly bans images (as opposed to photographs, which are covered under different law) of children that are pornographic and obscene. That is, by legal professionals, interpreted as including manga, comics, and CGI.

You do not need some universal "default position" to understand the laws as they currently exist.



Whether such laws already exist or not was not my point. The problem is that such laws are overreaching in nature.




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