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Posting Porn Link Judged Unlawful in Hong Kong
hkxforce writes "Can you imagine posting a link to a website that would get you arrested by the police? In Hong Kong, a middle-age man has been heavily fined for posting a porn link in an adult discussion forum. 'A court in the Kwun Tong district of the city heard that Woo provided a hyperlinked message on the forum which, when clicked, would enable other forum users to access an overseas pornographic website showing the photos. But Internet Society chairman Charles Mok Nai-kwong said the court case raised several concerns. 'In this case, the court has given a new direction to the public concerning the responsibility of internet users,' he said. Mok added that he also believed the case could damage the freedom of information on the internet. 'This man posted a link on the internet which now becomes an act that constitutes the breaking of law, and my question is whether a link is being regarded as the 'obscene article,'' he said.'"
Is telling someone the correct way to the red light district also illegal then ?
Yes, I'm left. You have a problem with that?
walking into a primary school and handing the stuff out on DVDs, and I'd hope most people would want that to be an offence.
God, what is it with you americans and sex. Why is it dangerous to see two people have sex, but it is perfectly OK to see people be beaten up, maimed and killed??
Handing out DVDs in a school is, and should not be, a criminal offence. That is ludicrous.
I don't know how repressed you were as a kid, but when I grew up, 10 year olds were reading pr0n on paper. They were just curious and it would not make the world better to arrest them for a criminal offence, just because the pr0n is on DVDs.
That would be illegal because murder is illegal. If you were to dress up as Mickey Mouse and tell children to go out and kill for Allah, that would be bad because murder is bad, not Mickey Mouse. Though I could understand the confusion.
On the other hand, if someone intentionally posts a link to kiddie porn or to some hate site, they can use the excuse of "I didn't say anything, I just posted a link!"
The same would go here on /.. If I posted a link that just abused Apple or Linux users, I would be modded "Flamebait" or "Troll" even though I wasn't the one who actually said it. It would be considered as if I said it.
I prefer Flambe as apposed flamebait.
There is explicit nudity. I wouldn't call it pornographic in the slightest.
Not all nudity is porn.
a) Hate sites should be legal. As much as despise whats spouted, I believe in freedom of speech. b) Comparing it with posting a link to child porn would only be correct if normal porn is illegal.
And you'll be surprised how this ISN'T the case throughout much of the world. Most Americans take it for granted, but it's pretty much an American innovation. Even liberal European democracies reserve very broad powers to curb speech in the name of a vaguely defined "public order". And you should hear Germans on how Nazi speech should be curbed (I wonder if they're really that afraid of neo-Nazis, or are they trying to suppress a rather painful national nightmare).
/. poster has a sig that goes "the root password to the US constitution is child porn". Well, child porn is illegal because it harms those who society judges cannot protect themselves. The legal theory is very well worked out, for example, the Supremes have clarified multiple times that 'simulated' child porn, though repugnant, cannot be illegal.
And even though some people claim that there are ways to subvert this in the US, it's actually pretty hard (and you have rights even within Guantanamo, see Hamdan v. Rumsfeld). One
Free speech laws have meaning only if they protect speech that genuinely makes you mad. I find it astonishing that so many nations fail this test.
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Oh right, in Fascist America we beat 'em again by suing people for links as early as 2000, in a case related to our beloved DMCA.
Don't get me wrong, I don't have a beef with USA, but such remarks piss me off. The label doesn't mean a thing. Communist or Fascist or Democratic, actions speak more than words.
Yes, this can happen in print. In the real world, people who persue democracy are hardly willing to be told all of their work belong to gov and so would either not impliment actual communism or quickly dissassemble it.
It don't work. Marxists need to get over it.
Yeah, and on 9/11 if we listen to your advice we only saw news footage of a bunch of fun loving guys and gals who were jumping off the flaming towers for the sport of it. Face it: TV news do snuff films all the time when it suits them. I'll also remind you that when you see a corpse in a bombed out shelter in Iraq, it's an actual real corpse of a real dead person who's still a little warm, not some faked up dummy like they have on CSI and other TV shows you think are cool.