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Rick Falkvinge On Child Porn and Freedom Of the Press
bazorg writes "Rick Falkvinge of the Swedish Pirate Party blogs on the subject of freedom of the press and foresees how users of Google glasses could be charged for possession and distribution of illegal porn. 'Child pornography is a toxic subject, but a very important one that cannot and should not be ignored. This is an attempt to bring the topic to a serious discussion, and explain why possession of child pornography need to be re-legalized in the next ten years.'"
Woah, I just got deja vu reading that post. It must mean some kind of plot development.
"The most radical idea I'm going to propose is that we get rid of the idea of criminal responsibility."
It's called mens rea, try to understand criminal law before you go about fixing it. Everything you babbled about is already handled by the present system.
Just possessing it, regardless of the reason, intent, etc is criminal. The law is very unbending on it. It gets applied pretty draconian at times too. A good example is a teenage couple sent naked pictures of themselves to each other via e-mail. They got out, and both were tried and convicted of child porn charges (and it was upheld on appeal). Doesn't matter that the pictures were of themselves, it is illegal, intent and any other factors are just not part of the law.
Actually I have a friend working in the state crime lab going after these guys and he says a good 90% of them? Need therapy and not jail time which is what they get. Hell they had one they had to tranq like an animal to get him out of his apt, he hadn't had human contact in 17 years, even his food was delivered to his door and paid for by CC. If you would have put him in a room with an actual child he would have tried to drill himself into a corner to get as far away from the kid as physically possible, yet you're gonna be paying for the next 45 years to deal with him.
He said you can spot this type from a mile away, as their porn collections are damned near identical. they start with regular porn, move on to your basic fetishes, anal, gangbangs, etc, then they move to trannys followed by the harder fetishes like S&M before finally ending up with Gbs of beast and CP. He said they'll have spindle after spindle or HDDs just stuffed to the max with more porn than you can ever watch and its completely identical from guy to guy. He said that is how he can tell when they have an actual predator instead of a head case, because their porn NOTHING but CP. They also have quite active social lives, because they are on the prowl. The head cases? Leave their houses as little as humanly possible, and many are agoraphobic to various degrees.
But you are completely wrong that legal pics would make more, because the predators that make this stuff aren't gonna quit, look at how much risk they take by producing it? We're talking about an average term of 60 years for any of the guys caught making it, you think they are gonna take MORE risk if the pics were legal to possess? Nope for them its about the power and feeling of dominance, the actual pics are just trophies, no different than a serial killer that takes pieces or articles from his victims, it lets him relive the crime. They share because they want everyone to see how powerful they are, they couldn't care less if you want to look or not, because its not about YOU, its about THEM.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.