UK Wants To Ban Computer-Generated Child Porn

An anonymous reader writes "UK Home Secretary John Reid has urged a ban on computer-generated images of child abuse, including cartoons. The Register asks if this would criminalize role-playing gamers, and what about Hentai? Currently, such images may be illegal to publish under the Obscene Publications Act, but they do not come under child pornography laws. The attempt to criminalize possession of virtual images mirrors the attempt to criminalize possession of 'extreme porn' which would also include fake images, as well as photos of simulated acts involving consenting adults (as discussed on Slashdot). A petition on the Government's new website urges an end to such plans."

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Mod to +20 please

[bjk002]

Read it people!!! Wake the hell up.

Re:Diverting from real issues

[Archangel Michael]

It doesn't work because penalties for violations against children are sometimes unpunished and people feel outraged. I'm sure you are one of those people who hate Bill O Reilly at Fox because he is a right wing blowhard or something but while you are complaining about Health Care crisis (which is tied to illegal immigration to a degree), and Iraq, he is complaining about JUDGES who sentence CHILD RAPISTS (the real kind) to PROBATION, or very short terms in jail.

This is PURE INSANITY. These people should be tortured to death (IMHO), publicaly. And I'm against the death penalty!

Our society is SICK, because we hide everything distasteful from the public. And people think we have an open society! We don't. Criminals have more rights than victims, convicted criminals have even more rights than average citizens. People in Jail should ROT (no health care, dental care, sex change operations ... NOTHING) until they get out. Technology is NOT a right, Health Care is NOT a right. These are privileges of an advanced technical society. RIGHTS are not something that technology provides, they are things you are BORN WITH, whether in the jungles of South America or in New York City.

Guess what? People get sick and die. It is a part of life, distasteful as it is. Little children deserve to live in a world that doesn't have sick perverts preying upon them, where parents cannot let their kids play outside for fear of the worst.

If you think Society is better because we can make childless child porn, or allow it because of some slippery slope arguement, you're just as stupid as the judge who thinks that a child rapist needs therapy, and probation. Sorry if I sound so outraged on this, but I am. It is because we don't really think about the consequences of our ivory tower arguments and debates.

We have lost all "judgement" because of slick lawyering and ivory tower debates. Personally, I don't want to live in a society so free that I am bombarded with child porn because some ivory tower argument about freedom of speech. Those same ivory tower arguments that allow me to be bombarded with regular porn today. Society isn't any better because of it either.

Re:Let's not play word games

[Goody]

What if child porn incites pedophiles? Is there any evidence at all of this? No, there isn't. People claim it's "common sense" and site statistics that show 70% of molestors have viewed child porn.

Who cares if there is evidence or not? There comes a time when it's no longer right to play amateur shady attorney, making tired slippery slope and intellectual masturbation where-do-you-draw-the-line arguments and just do what's morally correct. There's no good reason for the material to exist. We don't need years of studies to determine if artificial kiddie porn is detrimental. The lack of it isn't going to cause global warming, mass killings, or cute furry kittens to die. Someone having a desire for this material alone is an illness that needs to be addressed. Screw these "there is no victim" arguments others have posted here -- the person looking for this material is a victim.