those internet police could be out to get you.
I wasn't sure whether I should put this on F_W or not, but decided, probably not.

I got the link from metaquotes in LJ.

You know, when you get people who say 'OMG, you shouldn't write rapefic/BDSM/RPS/chan/insert kink of choice' because it will encourage others in real life to commit murder and mayhem and the whole world will end. Oh noooessss. Panic.

And then you laugh (or I laugh) and go...oookay, it's fiction, words on paper, or you know, pixels...or something.


Now we have a court Magistrate in Australia, saying pretty much the same thing.

A man gets prison time for having underage fiction on his computer. No images, just text.

The magistrate:
"It should be obvious to any person that material like this is legally and morally wrong and taboo in the Northern Territory and Australia generally," the magistrate said.

Mr Trigg said the danger of the stories was they "create the perception that this might be acceptable."

"There is also the potential that the written word may encourage someone to act out what they've read," he said.

Umm well. Whatever your opinion, this should set an interesting precedent. I will never read HP fiction again.