I don't think he's saying that it's ok to hurt people. These people have already been hurt and trading these photos is not necessarily going to hurt them anymore. If these photos are available for free at least the people who created it aren't getting paid. Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly not a fan of child pornography, but the whole point of freenet is to prevent the possibilty of censorship. If someone has the ability to censor one type of information they would have the ability to censor other types.
He that would give up even one freedom for security, deserves neither freedom nor security.
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How do you so much about people who make child porn?
I don't think he's saying that it's ok to hurt people. These people have already been hurt and trading these photos is not necessarily going to hurt them anymore. If these photos are available for free at least the people who created it aren't getting paid. Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly not a fan of child pornography, but the whole point of freenet is to prevent the possibilty of censorship. If someone has the ability to censor one type of information they would have the ability to censor other types.
He that would give up even one freedom for security, deserves neither freedom nor security.