Why hasn't the guro board been brought back yet?

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>>1450774
Might offend the christian sensibilities of /pol/

>>1450774
Why was it taken down in the first place?

>>1450784
dunno.
Probably none of the mods didn't want to moderate a gore board so they just deleted it.

In theory, there's no reason why US obscenity laws couldn't be applied to take down a website hosting guro, as there is no intrinsic value (artistic or otherwise) in guro other than for reporting purposes. And, as much as /pol/ would like to think otherwise, 4chan is not a news agency or body for spreading official news, which would easily stifle any argument invoking the 1st Amendment.

Albeit, it would take a truly authoritarian streak by the government for 4chan to be seized or forced to remove guro by court order, although not outside the realm of legal possibility.

>>1450800
>as there is no intrinsic value (artistic or otherwise)

According to who? How do you define "artistic" value?

>>1450800
Look who it is again, ID Heaven. I'm fed up with your shit faggot. The other day when you called me a newfag, yeah, haven't forgotten about that yet. Fuck you I've been on here for months and probably get on here more than you anyways. Don't you know that you make yourself look like a newfag when you call others newfag? Just because you learned how to hack your name and change it to "Heaven" does not give you the right to disrespect anyone at any time.

>>1450813
That's the problem with obscenity laws, they hinge on "artistic value". So, because loli and porn are considered artistic, they're completely legal to own. But, if a court decides X isn't artistic it can become illegal until overruled by a higher court.

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>>1450827
Guro is pretty creative though.
It's like a board devoted to horror/gore films.

>>1450840
Again, it doesn't necessarily matter what you and I find artistic or not if a court decides otherwise. And, I'd wager that a layman or judge probably wouldn't see the inherent artistic qualities of guro, since there will ultimately be someone showing them examples which may or may not be biased to force a certain decision. And even then popular approval for guro would be pretty low in a hypothetical ruling anyway, since the 1st Amendment would still allow news organizations to show guro for reporting purposes.

>>1450855
Not really making sense.
If stores in the US are allowed to sell a movie in the Saw franchise then it shouldn't be illegal to share someone's fan guro artwork on an internet forum.

Horror movies are actors being killed in a convincing fashion. Guro is the same with drawings.

>>1450867
Ah yes, but here's the catch, guro has an erotic element to it, and that's immediately a big no no for our burger friends. Violence is a-okay as long as there aren't any tits present, alright?

>>1450867
I probably should have said earlier on that this would be entirely hypothetical and only legally possible, but by no means likely to happen in the immediate future, if ever.

>>1450875
This guy gets it. In the 1900s, "smut" (porn) was in danger of being outlawed during the whole abolitionist movement, but the courts ultimately ruled that porn is artistic. In the future, however, there's no reason that this ruling couldn't be challenged making porn illegal. I in no way support obscenity laws, but it's important to understand how they work, because in the framework I laid out, it's entirely possible that guro, gore, porn, loli, etc could be deemed un-artistic and thus be made illegal. The US really likes authoritarianism, just when no one notices.