(I am not a lawyer.) Canada's Criminal Code doesn't discuss real versus fictional content, or discuss drawings specifically, but makes it clear that the medium of communication and personal motives are no protection. If you have something that combines sex with elements of crime, horror, cruelty or violence, then it's obscene by Canadian law. (I guess this means hard vore porn is illegal in Canada?) You can attempt arguing that something is a "public good" but good luck with that. As for arguing a free speech angle, a supreme court case from 1992 confirmed the notion of judging pornography under "community standards", which considers not what you individually think of something, but what public opinion would be if the material was shown to other people. Good luck showing the removed e621 content to random Canadian citizens and asking "You're ok with this, right?". Then there's a whole section of Canada's Criminal code that was added to address minors.
There used to be a criminal provision from 1949 against "crime comics", from the same moral panic that created the Comics Code Authority in the United States. Canada finally repealed it in 2018. Still, with the rise of computer-generated artwork and deepfakes, Canadian criminal law has not kept itself up to date and will need to re-evaluate what it means by "intimate image".
(I am not a lawyer.) Canada's Criminal Code doesn't discuss real versus fictional content, or discuss drawings specifically, but makes it clear that the medium of communication and personal motives are no protection. If you have something that combines sex with elements of crime, horror, cruelty or violence, then it's obscene by Canadian law. (I guess this means hard vore porn is illegal in Canada?) You can attempt arguing that something is a "public good" but good luck with that. As for arguing a free speech angle, a supreme court case from 1992 confirmed the notion of judging pornography under "community standards", which considers not what you individually think of something, but what public opinion would be if the material was shown to other people. Good luck showing the removed e621 content to random Canadian citizens and asking "You're ok with this, right?". Then there's a whole section of Canada's Criminal code that was added to address minors.
There used to be a criminal provision from 1949 against "crime comics", from the same moral panic that created the Comics Code Authority in the United States. Canada finally repealed it in 2018. Still, with the rise of computer-generated artwork and deepfakes, Canadian criminal law has not kept itself up to date and will need to re-evaluate what it means by "intimate image".