Of course those sources could be outdated, but it’s also quite possible that the law is just being ignored (in another word, it’s a relic). It’s a map of the legality of obscene drawings, not of the tolerance towards it.
Maybe we need yet another color for countries where “Obscene” drawings are explicitly illegal, but an advantageous social context implies a high likelihood that the local law enforcement will just look the other way.

@fonzer
Does your site mention a source or some article of the law ?
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Happy new year.

As usual, laws that pertain to obscenity are vague. You seem to be right: according to this law, a “visual depiction” of sexually explicit activity is only problematic when performers involved are under legal age. The details are ambiguous, but I’ll definitely change the status of the country in the next version.

@ bnana,

We have compiled a “collection of sources” for the map. For the moment, the results are available on our closed wiki, but in the future, we will have an open, collaborative platform for people who want to edit the map – and many other kinds of laws that curtail freedom of expression will be addressed.

That said, the source referenced for Panama doesn’t seem to mention anything along the lines of obscenity, as rusty as my Spanish may be.

We aren’t anywhere close to disappearing. Simply, most of our active members at the moment are full-time students with part-time jobs and thus very busy people. That said, I’ve personally been getting extensive training in information ethics and social theory as part of my degree: my obsessive academic endeavours aren’t unrelated to my political activism.