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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.'"
If posting a picture of nekkid women in Hong Kong can get you arrested, I don't wanna imagine what happens to whoever is brave enough to post a link to Goatse there. Oh, my eyes!
Is telling someone the correct way to the red light district also illegal then ?
Yes, I'm left. You have a problem with that?
So when can we expect to see CSI: Goatse Victims Unit?
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Direct link to recording between the cop and 911 (warning: very funny):p .mp3
http://media.freep.com/audio/2007/0510potcop_free
Yes I can. If I posted a link to hard-core snuff porn on a primary school web-forum, it wouldn't suprise me. In my world of analogises, that would be like 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.
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someone posts a link to a perfectly innocent thing; the host for which later either changes the image maliciously or as a result of a security breach into something forbidden.
Would they hold the person who posted the link at fault then?
The thing about goatse is though, is that it's NOT porn.
It's probably more akin to horror. It's eye violence, eye rape. It actually is offensive to most people, it's design and utilization is to shock and offend.
Not so with porn. While that does offend right wing religious fascists and left wing womens groups (what a nightmare combination), it does not offend many other people - most people, in fact.
The object of porn is enjoyment. Thus it should really be embraced and encouraged as long as (some) controls are in place to ensure it gets to its appropriate audience. Arresting people for pasting links is not appropriate control.
And since this thread can be safely considered NSFW, and is going to be a NSFW link free-for-all, then here's my preferred site.
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.
Yes.
Remember this when you buy all that cheap Chinese stuff at the stores that it is helping to maintain what is in fact a slave nation.
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There is explicit nudity. I wouldn't call it pornographic in the slightest.
Not all nudity is porn.
Being an Australian, I wouldn't risk it. They'd probably extradite me.
Did anyone notice the guy posted on an adult board to begin with ? So in Hong Kong, theoretically speaking if you're in a sex shop and you point out one of your favorite DVDs to another customer, would they toss you in the slammer ?
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I kid, I kid. Seriously, you made some good points.
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If you're German (if!) then you should think twice before starting to talk such rubbish in the public (I don't mind if you do this in your bathroom, though).
1. Most households already have a TV set before they buy a computer. In this case you are likely to pay the monthly fees already. The vast majority of private households is not affected by classifying computers as TV receivers. You don't pay twice. Nothing to write home about.
2. Running fora in Germany is not forbidden, even not de facto (and certainly not de jure). Otherwise heise.de would have had to close down already.
But I don't think you got the facts right to begin with.
Next time don't post anonymously, coward.
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If you can read Chinese, here is the local news entry:
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/070510/12/276r4.html
The forum in question was inside the adult section of Uwants. There used to be a forum there that focuses on adult pictures, but that particular forum has been removed since the incident.
So he should be held accountable if he had pointed the way to a church too, then?
Not all religions, er churchs and other places of worship, are banned or illegal. Both Christianity and Islam are practiced, in the open, in China. While there is religious persecutions in China and the authorities discourage religion they haven't made it illegal.
As for TFA, it's ironic the newspaper the TFA comes from is in United Arab Emirates which bans porn. Like Iran and other countries, the UAE has banned Flicker because some photos are considered bad influences.
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