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>> possession of child pornography

>yup. the obscenity laws. ridiculous imo. it is what it is

Those are actually not the same thing. In the case of the former, it is illegal because it is furthering a crime outside of the question of speech. In the case of the later, it is a strict 3-pronged test and rarely enforced outside of public showings/readings/&c.

For the most part, it is not the speech being barred, but what it is being used as a tool for. As an analogy, swinging a hammer is legal, but swinging that hammer into a person's skull isn't.