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What the Scarlett Johansson Robot Says About the Future

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When addressing free speech rights, the Supreme Court has tended to protect creativity and has been unsympathetic toward the idea that fiction can cause harm. But is a robot with somebody's face unharmful fiction? The court allows lawmakers to ban child pornography, but not purely virtual child pornography, reasoning that fictionalized pornography doesn't actually harm a real child. Lower courts have split, however, on whether it is permissible to arrest somebody for photoshopping an image of a real child's face onto adult pornography. No child would have been actually harmed in the making of the image.