Fighting Porn Vs. Ruining Innocent Lives

After news of the conviction of a substitute teacher for endangering minors — because porn popups, possibly initiated by adware, had appeared on her computer during class — comes the even sadder story of 16-year-old Matt Bandy. His family's life was turned upside-down when he was charged in Arizona with possession of child pornography, even though the family computer was riddled with spyware and Trojans. After the intervention of ABC's 20/20, Matt finally was allowed to plead to a lesser charge (namely, sharing a Playboy magazine with friends) and just barely escaped being labeled a sex offender for the rest of his life.

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they still dont see it

[FudRucker]

popups, spyware, viruses, trojans & worms are all part of the microsoft windows experience...

they blame everything but the vulnerable system that propagate this kludge...

Re:your country is fucked

[Blakey Rat]

Pretty insightful to insult the US for no reason. Because it's unthinkable that any European nation has any obsolete "Blue Laws" which can be used to prosecute people like in this case.