Japan Moves Toward Blocking Online Child Porn

crimeandpunishment writes "In the wake of increased international demands that it do something about its legal lenience toward child pornography, Japan is beginning to take action, albeit slowly. Thursday a government task force recommended that kiddie porn sites be blocked as soon as they're discovered, instead of waiting for an investigation or arrests. Making or distributing child porn is illegal in Japan, but possession is not ... and critics have called that a legal loophole making Japan an international hub for child porn."

Comments

Re:What if they are Jewish?

[Anonymous Coward]

This is why these laws are bullshit. For example in Canada, AFAIK (unless it was changed recently) it was OK for a 30 year old to have sex with someone as young as 14!!! That may have been hiked recently to a more reasonable 16, but not sure. *But* you only need to have text describing child porn (ie. not a drawing, not a picture of actual abuse, but text) and you can be found guilty of possession of child porn. Same thing for that 30 year old that has sex with underage person - OK to actual have sex. Not OK to have picture of it, even if it was the younger person that created it!

Another recent example is Australia banning small-breasted porn stars from XXX movies in Australia. The apparent reason (in not so many words) is people that find women with small breasts attractive are pedophiles!!!! Now, why aren't women right's groups all over this shitty law??

This is why lots of these anti-child-porn laws are bullshit. I'm all for removing child molesters from society (that includes people creating real child porn), but there are laws that are overreaching and allow almost anyone to be liable.

Re:Western society's sexual psychosis

[cdrguru]

Kiddie porn pictures are not a substitute for "the real thing". If anything, there is considerable evidence that kiddie porn pictures incent the possessor to go and get the real thing.

Also, in most cases these pictures are sold, not given away freely. If there is a demand and a marketplace there will be folks that will supply it. All you need is a camera and a child or two. And children are pretty easy to get. If a child isn't interested in cooperating, they will be after a few slaps.

Just having such a marketplace is incredibly destructive to children. If it was all about just passing pictures around for free and children freely taking them for people's enjoyment that would be a completely different matter.

HAVE YOU ALL FUCKING LOST IT?

[CorporateSuit]

The posts on this article horrify me. 90% of them are, in fact, arguing that we should let people view child pornography, as long as they're "not distributing it". Have things changed so drastically since two days ago when I said that it was a slippery slope to this point? Did everyone decide to get together and prove my -1 post, modded "Troll" inappropriately, was a prophetic truth?

"As long as there's no victim things r ok! Duhr huhr! It's a thought crime!" So is the difference between manslaughter and premeditated murder! There's no philosophical debate here, you guys fantasize about screwing children and you want society to accept and facilitate that.

No, you sick fucks. No. Read up on any study done on the subject and you'll see how fantasy all so quickly leads to reality. Read on how pornography encourages, and leads to sexual deviancy (to the point where a very large margin of PROSTITUTES feel squeamish at what their clients request of them -- as you know, prostitutes are the biggest PRUDES of our western society!) Then come back here and read the posts on this article, and tell me that we're not sliding, very dangerously, down the slippery slope already.

Re:HAVE YOU ALL FUCKING LOST IT?

[CorporateSuit]

Right -- masturbating to children being raped has the same emotional impact as seeing someone get killed on TV. How did you get so smart with your head up your ass? Do you prefer typing, because talking makes your mouth taste like farts?

If you consistently orgasm to a certain visual stimulus, you refuse to acknowledge that will cause some sort of psychological reinforcement to it?

Re:HAVE YOU ALL FUCKING LOST IT?

[CorporateSuit]

And yes, your desire to break bones and report to the FBI anyone that dares even discuss whether child porn laws are appropriate speaks volumes about your common sense.

Any person who ADVOCATES child pornography and is, himself, not a paedophile is a GRIEVIOUSLY misled individual.

Re:Cencorship, etc

[CorporateSuit]

They made Iron Man 2 after the first Iron Man only sold 1 ticket! Demand NEVER dictates supply! I just fell off a turnip truck and this is exactly what I think!

Are you really this dense or do you just play it on slashdot? Most people seem to be dropping their IQs by about 60 in order to rationalize their fetish of banging underaged girls, today.