 Sweden's
Pirate Party leader, Rick Falkvinge has said that child pornography should be
allowed in cartoons but this stance has been roundly criticised by the press.
The law should focus on 'real criminals' abusing children,
he's quoted as saying, But We want to be extremely clear in that we
do not want to legalize any form of the handling of child pornography.
He expressed regret over comments made in an interview with Sveriges
Radio's Ekot news programme admitting he expressed himself clumsily.
The debate arose when a man was convicted for the possession of
animated comics, Falkvinge says in The Local: In an open society you
can not forbid someone from drawing their fantasies. That is our main
point in the issue, that we can not have thought crimes in Swedish law.
Meanwhile, Pirate Party vice-chair Anna Troberg says The current law
is wasting resources chasing pretend criminals and should be focusing on
real child pornography, with real children involved, not manga comics,
holiday pictures and so on. The problem is that they focus on the
pictures and not the victims and waste masses of resources, she states.
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