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In the US at least. Last I heard in the UK you could still get sent to prison for Mangas.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_po...

Not the whole US, the Texas state government just passed a ban on virtual and non-photorealistic 'obscene' depictions of minors

It likely doesn't pass the constitution or will have to be subject to the Miller's test. Hence it doesn't really change much that the federal law already did.

Yet Texas will enforce it regardless

Yes, but not for CSAM, rather they have a different obscenity law for that. It is kind of in the article.

> Anderegg moved to dismiss each of the four counts. In an opinion last month, the court largely rejected the motions. However, the court did dismiss the possession charge, holding that Section 1466A is unconstitutional as applied to Anderegg’s private possession of obscene “virtual” CSAM.

> The Supreme Court has held that the First Amendment protects the right to possess obscene material in one’s own home, Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U.S. 557 (1969), so long as it’s not actual CSAM, Osborne v. Ohio, 495 U.S. 103 (1990).

Probably they can still charge him with distribution (to the teenage boy), but not possession. Probably production is also not dropped?

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