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Teens Prosecuted For Racy Photos
An anonymous reader writes with a story on CNet about two teens who were prosecuted under anti-child-porn laws in Florida for having made and emailed racy photos of each other. Both were under 18 years old, so the resulting pictures are clearly illegal; but the teens' intent was not to share the pictures with anyone else. An appeals court majority opinion found that emailing the photos from one of the kids to the other was a careless act that should, it seems, bring down the full weight of the law. A minority opinion argued that the laws were intended to protect children from exploitative adults, not from other children.
Soon everything we think and do will be illegal and we will all be criminals under Christian sharia law.
Which idiot modded this as a troll?
"When I first heard Daydream Nation it quite frankly scared the living shit out of me." -- Matthew Stearns
First they had sex without being married, then they made photographs of it! I imagine they also worship other Gods and lie about things.
I feel so disgusted that I need to ask you all to donate to my Church which will fight for a 50,000 year sentence to protect our country from non-believers.
Thank You,
Manipulative Religious Idiot
"To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free" ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four
Since the detectives/prosecutors involved seem to be so exceptionally talented at finding evil dangers hidden from public view, I propose we send them where they're really needed - Iraq.
It's not often I say this directly, but you're a jackass. As I'm not a connoisseur of naked kid pictures, I can't confirm your hypothesis, but it seems to be exceedingly rare for minors to be prosecuted for this kind of thing. After all, if it happened 20 times a day, we probably wouldn't be reading about in on Slashdot, would we?
But the real reason your post is stupid is that it presumes that the only possible reason for discouraging the behavior is that adults don't want kids to have fun. In reality, it has huge consequences, both physical and psychological, and if it can be delayed until adulthood it probably should be.
I'm not anti-sex by any measure, and I'll probably give my kids the "try not to do it but use a condom if you must" lecture when they get older. And yet, I'm not opposed to laws that prevent people from doing things that are likely to ruin at 15-year-old's life.
Although I hate the "think of the children" angle, my gut reaction was to ask if that's what they told you at the NAMBLA meeting. Seriously, you don't believe there should be any restrictions whatsoever on sexual contact "regardless of their age" (your words)? That an eight year-old should be able to have consensual sex with a forty year-old? And that an eight year-old is capable of consenting to such a thing at all?
Wow. Just... wow.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Fuck you to the lowest pit of hell, you savage son of a bitch. This goddamned country is crawling with sadistic bastards like you who have nothing better to do than to search the darkest recesses of their minds to find ways to try as many juveniles as possible as adults. If that isn't child abuse, there isn't any.
I generally don't believe in eugenics, but I hope to Christ that you're sterile so that your poisonous spawn never defile the earth.
I saw and fucked them while you didn't have the right to see them. Your mum liked it that way.