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Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws
gandhi_2 writes "The Guardian has a story about an ongoing legal battle over the use of full body scanners in the UK. The Protection of Children Act 1978, includes provisions in which it is illegal to create an indecent image or a 'pseudo-image' of a child... which a full body scanner does."
Pedobear TSA edition!
"Think of the Children" meets "Fighting Terrorism." Which one wins? News at 11.
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Two ridiculous hot-button topics with opposing aims.
Wow, this is kind of like when the unstoppble force meets the immovable object.
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As much as I don't care for the losers working airport security, I'm more concerned about the trauma they will go through looking at average airline passengers sans clothing all day long.
please think of the adults!
Security debates don't fuel anything to do with think.
Unless you count Doublethink.
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Child porn laws need to differentiate between images of voluntarily nude children in the bathtub and children forced to show their privates to strangers so that they can fly to visit grandma.
We'll have to put kids in opaque balls and cast them out to sea so that nobody can look at them or touch them or think about them. It's the only way.
If you think if the children, the terrorists win. Wait. No. If you don't think of the children, the terrorists win. Ahhh...my moral outrage is so confused right now.
I say the passengers for the flight get to take a vote to see who gets to go through the body scanning machine. I doubt you'll get a flight full of pedophiles, but some kids seem capable of blowing things up
Children are small. We can transport them with a series of high speed air powered tubes. Problem solved.
Fear of pedos vs. fear of terrorists.
The cage match we've all been waiting for.
Anyone taking bets?
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Bestiality is illegal. Let's outlaw all images of naked animals; the logic is the same, unfortunately.
Bestiality is illegal.
Not here in Brazil, bitches. You will have to pry Mumu from my cold dead hands
Think of the child terrorists!
No sister, no daughter, and if you think my mom is hot, then there's something -really- wrong with you.
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I propose we invoke the law of the school yard which clearly states that if they're going to see ours they're going to have to show us theirs. That should put an end to that.
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Get the Queen to run the scanners. She is above the law (or ta least can pardon herself from anything)
In the meantime, enjoy the hilarous sound that two stupid laws make when they collide.
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Bestiality is illegal.
Not here in Brazil, bitches. You will have to pry Mumu from my cold dead hands
Your cold dead hands? Is necrophilia legal there as well? Because then I could get a two-fer.
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Stupid friggin article.
First off, in order for the law to have any effect, you have to find someone willing to press charges.
Second, the charged person will have a right to be judged by their peers.
So, do you think anyone would prosecute someone under this law? Do you think any jury (including a judge) would convict someone for these circumstances?
This is how and why the laws work in the US, are they that much different in the UK?. Whoever wrote (and posted here) the article is just digging for attention on a non-issue.
Now if images did leak out onto the internet, then you have a case against anyone who allowed or enabled that leak. So, I would be all for stringent historical logging of usage of these machines. Some way to identify all persons who had access that could have leaked an inappropriate image, be it child or not. So, like other things, quit trying to stop a good thing based on exaggeration, and spend more effort discussing and fixing the real problem.
slashdot troll = you make a compelling argument I do not like the implications of.
No sister, no daughter, and if you think my mom is hot, then there's something -really- wrong with you.
He said wife, not mom. You have issues ;-)
Just stop giving out candy from the back of your van, and you should be safe until the next major child porn bust in your neighborhood
This is blinging
I can make it erotic by having an erection when I'm in the machine ;).
Every experiment which ends in a big bang is a good experiment.
The UK law prohibits indecent images. Nudity is neither necessary nor sufficient to indicate indecency under UK law.
Simple snaps on a nudist beach, medical photographs, photos gathered for evidence in court, snaps in the bath or on a rug - all perfectly legal. A fully clothed but sexually suggestive photograph of a child may be illegal - nudity is not the defining criteria.
There is no way these machines would fall foul of the UK law, so it's a complete non-story.
Sigs are so 1990s. No way would I be seen dead with one.
One thing is certain though - given the survival of the recent bomber, bombers should now think twice before hesitate stuffing explosives into their crotch area
Should, maybe, but won't.
If they weren't blazing idiots in the first place, they would be hesitating before stuffing explosives next to their balls BEFORE someone lit his own on fire.
I mean come on... Jihad is Jihad, but these are the twins we're talking about.
It's the same in any other civilised nation where the gun lobby doesn't have control of the legislature and gun laws are actually somewhat sensible. :P
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