Comment by empressplay
8 hours ago
In British Columbia both text-based accounts (real and fictional, such as stories) and drawings of underage sexual activity are illegal (basically any sort of depiction, even if it just comes out of your mouth.)
So California is just starting to catch up.
All of Canada. The Canadian Criminal Code is federal.
I think they did carve out a judicial exception in a case where some guy was writing pure text stories for his own personal use, and didn't intentionally show them to anybody else at all, but I also seem to recall it was a pretty grudging exception for only those very specific circumstances.
Wrong country (at least for now...!)
Not wrong country. In 2021, a Texas man was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison over CSAM text and drawings - https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/texas-man-sentenced-40-years-...
Specifically, this ruling does not make that kind of content illegal. This person was convicted under federal obscenity statues, which are....fuzzy to say the least. As Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart said, it's a "i know it when i see it" thing.
Which in effect is basically a "you can go to jail if we think you're too gross" law.