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US Intensifies Fight Against Child Pornography
TechnoGuyRob writes "BBC News is reporting that the Bush administration has recently stepped up its measures against child pornography. From the article 'Sadly, the internet age has created a vicious cycle in which child pornography continually becomes more widespread, more graphic, more sadistic, using younger and younger children. [...] Mr. Gonzales also said that he is investigating ways to ensure that ISPs retain records of a user's web activities to track down offenders.'"
One thing I'm surprized is that the RIAA/MPAA haven't tried to shut down the P2P programs with the goverment saying that they harbor child pornography.
Never mind seems like they already have.
I thought the Supreme Court had already ruled that cartoons are not able to be consider child pornography. How the hell can the judge sit by and allow the case to go forward with that precedent already mandated?
What the hell is wrong with our country? Cartoons are not reality. Fire the guy and maybe give him one or two years for theft of services (using his work computer for non-work, and that depends specifically on his work contract). But the criminal charges based on his looking at, receiving, soliciting, possessing, or viewing cartoon depictions of anything are fucking bullshit.
You don't want the protectors of your freedom to have access to your personal records? WHAT ARE YOU HIDING???
To finally end the production of child pornography, unlicensed private possession of photographic equipment is now to be banned. Requirements for a license to possess photographic equipment will include background checks, fingerprint and DNA collection, as well as locks on all photographic devices that require submitting a copy of every image taken with that device to law enforcement agencies before they may be viewed/developped by anyone. Not only will this prevent perverts from taking pictures of naked children, but it will also stop terrorists from photographing buildings and other illegal photographs to plan their attack on our freedom. Anyone found to be in possession of a photographic device without a license, or bypassing the mechanism to submit copies of all images taken to the government, will be imprisoned with tough mandatory minimum sentences regardless of the content of their photographs. Selling these devices illegally will result in a 10 year mandatory minimum sentence. This new prohibition will be just as effective as our prohibition on drugs; it will solve our nations child pornography problem by keeping cameras and camcorders out of the hands of child molestors.
If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to be afraid of. Having all your photographs viewed by law enforcement a small price to pay to protect our children and protect our freedom! If you oppose this new policy, you're either a child pornographer or a terrorist, and will be arrested for treason.
You know what the saddest thing is, I had a conversation with a friend who actually believed that such overt invasions of privacy were completely justified to protect the country. Including warrantless interception of every single phone call, even completely domestic. She even said it would be fine if the government wanted to read her diary for no reason. A device in your car that automatically ticketed you for going 1mph over the limit? You're breaking the law, so you deserve punishment. Preventing people from breaking the law was much more important than privacy. She was dead serious, and of course a fanatical right wing republican. She was otherwise intelligent too, science major at my (tier 1) university. This was the last conversation I ever had with her. People like her show what's wrong with this country that allowed these kind of measures to pass.
I can remember sexual thoughts when I was six years old-- I had no idea what they were, but I know I knew the teacher was totally hot.
I know I had erections when I was eight or so, but my eleven year old brother couldn't tell me what was going on.
Now I'm a parent of two girls, 2.5 and 4 years old. Both masturbate so furiously that it's embarassing. The youngest one has even invented a word for her clitoris-- we parents try not to talk about it.
Why the hell is sex taboo?
It is natural and inevitable.
By the way-- how many murders can you see in a week on tv? How many sex acts?
Which one is legal?
Odd eh?
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Please, explain to me the difference between sending you to jail for not doing (insert nasty and horrible thing here) and some guy not soliciting a "minor"? In my mind sending someone to jail for soliciting a person pretending to be a minor because when they did the soliciting they thought it was a minor is no different then sending someone to jail for merely thinking about any other crime. They have a word for that kind of thing.
Thoughtcrime
In the US it is a crime to walk into a bank with a gun, but it is not a crime to stand outside of a bank with a gun. So by your logic, if a man walks up to the door of a bank with a gun in his hand and a policeman sees him he should not be arrested for attempted armed robbery? The policeman should wait until the man with the gun actually says, "give me the money", and takes hostages before trying to arrest him? From the description given in the above posts these are people who solicited for sex and then showed up at this "minor's" house. My hypothetical bank robber didn't think about robbing a bank, many people do that, he actually bought a gun and went to the bank with it fully loaded. The perverts described above didn't think about having sex with a child, they went to the child's house after having already solicited them for sex. This is the difference between thoughtcrime and an attempted crime. Remember simply showing up at a kids house by itself is not enough for a conviction, these men or women would have had to at some point indicated that they had the intent of having sex or sexual contact with the "minor".
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