Fun story: In 1997, a court in Oklahoma ruled that The Tin Drum was child pornography.
Law enforcement went to every store and confiscated every copy. They even intimidated movie rental stories to give up the addresses of those who had rented the film so they could go to the house and confiscate those copies.
Unfortunately, the judge had seen scenes (probably the young boy eating the sherbet from the girl's navel among other things) out of context. Lawsuits ensued and it was eventually overturned and all copies were returned. And, as it turns out, the confiscations were ruled unconstitutional. All this over a film about facsim and Nazis.
America.
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