It has come to my attention that lemonteaflower's rabid fans are even resorting to spreading lies about me to sensationalize their blind support because they know that LTF is not defensible for posting illegal images at this point. They're desperate for validation and they're never gonna get any of it. I have never sent death threats and I have never encouraged others to do that, nor would I even. But I have received death threats from her pedophiliac drones who are foaming at the mouth because I was brave enough to report her and keep a document of this with help from others who care about not only the law but the fact that CSA victims and children don't deserve to see an adult fetishize drawn depictions of children's bodies being raped, though. I delete angry messages on sight because they don't offend me. But, none of that is relevant. This is about reporting all of this to tumblr so tumblr won't face legal ramifications for allowing this to be hosted on their website. None of your petty vendettas about me reporting an artist you like actually matter, and that's not the point. I don't hate LTF because she's not worth expending that type of emotion upon from me, but I do hate what she did. I've reported many other instances of drawn child pornography on this site that I have seen and have gotten them taken down or entire blogs terminated by tumblr. Artists on this website have gotten their blogs deleted by tumblr for publicly displaying this type of imagery because others have reported them.
It's particularly surreal to see the lengths people will go to defend someone who did something horrific and illegal that affects all children and CSA survivors (and there's so much of it that many of you haven't seen). Amid the other things people are getting up in arms about, if there's one thing that anyone is completely justified in opposing with regard to LTF, it would be, you know, the one thing she did that is actually illegal. Posting those graphic images on websites based in the USA is not legal. And on the matter of having "artistic, scientific, or political" value? LTF's drawn images were nothing but sexual, having no other purpose but to arouse other people who fetishize this kind of crap, so no one who has to adhere to U.S. law will realistically believe they have any of the aforementioned values as people have already faced prison time for what LTF has done. I'm not making this up.
From the United States Department of Justice on Child Obscenity:
Section 1466A of Title 18, United State Code, makes it illegal for any person to knowingly produce, distribute, receive, or possess with intent to transfer or distribute visual representations, such as drawings, cartoons, or paintings that appear to depict minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and are deemed obscene. This statute offers an alternative 2-pronged test for obscenity with a lower threshold than the Miller test. The matter involving minors can be deemed obscene if it (i) depicts an image that is, or appears to be a minor engaged in graphic bestiality, sadistic or masochistic abuse, or sexual intercourse and (ii) if the image lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. A first time offender convicted under this statute faces fines and at least 5 years to a maximum of 20 years in prison.
There are also laws to protect children from obscene or harmful material on the Internet. For one, federal law prohibits the use of misleading domain names, words, or digital images on the Internet with intent to deceive a minor into viewing harmful or obscene material (See 18 U.S.C. §§ 2252B, 2252C). It is illegal for an individual to knowingly use interactive computer services to display obscenity in a manner that makes it available to a minor less than 18 years of age (See 47 U.S.C. § 223(d) –Communications Decency Act of 1996, as amended by the PROTECT Act of 2003). It is also illegal to knowingly make a commercial communication via the Internet that includes obscenity and is available to any minor less than 17 years of age (See 47 U.S.C. § 231 –Child Online Protection Act of 1998).
The standard of what is harmful to minors may differ from the standard applied to adults. Harmful materials for minors include any communication consisting of nudity, sex or excretion that (i) appeals to the prurient interest of minors, (ii) is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community with respect to what is suitable material for minors, (iii) and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.
In addition to facing imprisonment and fines, convicted offenders of federal obscenity laws involving minors may also be required to register as sex offenders. Furthermore, in some circumstances, obscenity violations involving minors may also be subject to prosecution under federal child pornography laws, which yield serve statutory penalties.
Please, don't take this risk. If you do, you are putting yourself in a position to face some consequence and they're not going to be something that can easily be overcome, legally if they are reported to authorities or socially. Don't do what LTF did. It's far too risky, especially if you're a legal adult like she is.
