Under several penal Codes, it is a crime to "send, transport, produce, possess, or duplicate" any child pornography material https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/penal-code/311/ So why can´t penal codes also punish those who send, transport, produce, possess, or duplicate any animal-cruelty videos, like the disgusting ones that recently had raised millions both to his producers but also to the social media platforms? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/animals-youtube-facebook-tiktok-video-b1906254.html
On this issue its worth remembering that a few years ago the United States Supreme Court ruled that the federal regulation (Crush Act) meant to stop the creation and sale of “crush” videos and used to convict Mr Stevens for selling animal-cruelty videos (United States versus Stevens) was unconstitutional because it violated his right to free speech under the First Amendment:
"The sample crush video provided to the Court in Stevens depicted the following scene:
[A] kitten, secured to the ground, watches and shrieks in pain as a woman thrusts her high-heeled shoe into its body, slams her heel into the kitten’s eye socket and mouth loudly
fracturing its skull, and stomps repeatedly on the animal’s head. The kitten hemorrhages
blood, screams blindly in pain, and is ultimately left dead in a moist pile of blood-soaked hair..."
PS - Of the nine Supreme Court Judges, only one (Samuel Alito) voted against it.
