All you with your freedom talk while caring a rats ass about the victims.
What victims would you be talking about here? I presume not the 250 million who stand to lose intellectual and personal freedom bit-by-bit thanks to sound-byte knee-jerk politics. Ohhh! You meant the children (real people, just like you and me, remember) who are supposed to remain asexual until a mysterious, magical 18th birthday...
but not before your kids have not shown up somewhere out there.
100 children are abducted and killed each year in this country by murderous lunatics. 1 in 4 "underage" females (I suspect it's actually many more) are at some point in situations that would paint them as victims by your standards. The major source of victimization, I would argue, comes from the social stimatization after the fact -- and to be fair, not all of these experiences are good for those involved.
Unfortunately your statements reinforce the common misconception that all "girl-lovers" are homicidal. And that somehow all patriots of freedom and skeptics of social conventions are guilty by association. THINK.
What I can't understand is why they don't bother going after the large newsgroup servers (and ISPs who host them). Common carrier priviledge for the purpose of relaying a transmission from point A to B seems justified to me, but what about storing and relaying the contents of alt.binaries.pictures.hussy (for example)?
Won't it be a fun game when amateur 3d modeling becomes so realistic that one is unable to tell the difference between CGI and RL CP...? If CGI CP is legal and RL CP is not, wouldn't it make sense for the producers of RL CP to all switch to CGI CP? And if all those who appreciate such content know instinctively that it is no longer RL CP, will it still be as exciting? And if there is no more (new) RL CP, will we still need laws against the possession of (any) RL CP on the basis that it *might* be used in a manner that produces more RL CP?
Disclaimer: I'm a sysadmin who maintains a large DCHub and shares over 200GB via overnet & ftp -- I'm sure there are many/. readers who can state the same.
I'm curious to know if you had any sort of deadman's switch apparatus that might have prevented your conviction (by lack of concrete evidence).
If not, do you think one would have helped?
What particular technologies would you suggest if you had to built one?
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All you with your freedom talk while caring a rats ass about the victims.
/dev/come-on-baby-light-my-fire
What victims would you be talking about here? I presume not the 250 million who stand to lose intellectual and personal freedom bit-by-bit thanks to sound-byte knee-jerk politics. Ohhh! You meant the children (real people, just like you and me, remember) who are supposed to remain asexual until a mysterious, magical 18th birthday...
but not before your kids have not shown up somewhere out there.
100 children are abducted and killed each year in this country by murderous lunatics. 1 in 4 "underage" females (I suspect it's actually many more) are at some point in situations that would paint them as victims by your standards. The major source of victimization, I would argue, comes from the social stimatization after the fact -- and to be fair, not all of these experiences are good for those involved.
Unfortunately your statements reinforce the common misconception that all "girl-lovers" are homicidal. And that somehow all patriots of freedom and skeptics of social conventions are guilty by association. THINK.
loop -o flames
Does this mean we won't be able to get our lolita fix?
/dev/come-on-baby-light-my-fire
What about Video Angels?
What I can't understand is why they don't bother going after the large newsgroup servers (and ISPs who host them). Common carrier priviledge for the purpose of relaying a transmission from point A to B seems justified to me, but what about storing and relaying the contents of alt.binaries.pictures.hussy (for example)?
Won't it be a fun game when amateur 3d modeling becomes so realistic that one is unable to tell the difference between CGI and RL CP...? If CGI CP is legal and RL CP is not, wouldn't it make sense for the producers of RL CP to all switch to CGI CP? And if all those who appreciate such content know instinctively that it is no longer RL CP, will it still be as exciting? And if there is no more (new) RL CP, will we still need laws against the possession of (any) RL CP on the basis that it *might* be used in a manner that produces more RL CP?
loop -o flames
Disclaimer: I'm a sysadmin who maintains a large DCHub and shares over 200GB via overnet & ftp -- I'm sure there are many /. readers who can state the same.
I'm curious to know if you had any sort of deadman's switch apparatus that might have prevented your conviction (by lack of concrete evidence).
If not, do you think one would have helped?
What particular technologies would you suggest if you had to built one?