20 Years for Yaoi + Other Government Sex Law Stupidity

[kedawa]

Is it that hard for lawmakers to tell the difference between a child and a sexually developed adolescent?
I've read about three cases in the last week that cite child porn, but there are no children involved in any of them. What a fucking tease.

[Fe 26]

I guess this is a good as thread as any for this. Apparently you can get jail time for accentially having child porn on your computer, ever.

http://cbs13.com/local/limewire.chil...2.1346842.html

"Two years ago, Matthew White searched Limewire for porn. He was looking for 'College Girls Gone Wild,' but ended up downloading some images of child pornography. This was accidental, according to White, and he quickly deleted the images. A year later, the FBI showed up on his family's doorstep and asked to search the computer. After thorough sleuthing, the FBI found some images 'deep within the hard drive.' According to White, the investigators agreed that he himself could not have accessed the files anymore. Matthew now faces 20 years in jail for possession of child pornography. On advice from his lawyer, he intends to plead guilty so that he will 'hopefully' end up with 3.5 years in jail, 10 years probation and a registration as a sex offender. 'The FBI could not comment on this specific case, but said if child pornography is ever downloaded accidentally, the user needs to call authorities immediately. They may confiscate your computer, but it's better than the alternative.'"

[Fe 26]

Another great story. Apparently the FBI likes to make fake child porn sites and then go beat anyone that looks at them. AMERIKA!

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9899151-38.html

The FBI has recently adopted a novel investigative technique: posting hyperlinks that purport to be illegal videos of minors having sex, and then raiding the homes of anyone willing to click on them.

Undercover FBI agents used this hyperlink-enticement technique, which directed Internet users to a clandestine government server, to stage armed raids of homes in Pennsylvania, New York, and Nevada last year. The supposed video files actually were gibberish and contained no illegal images.

A CNET News.com review of legal documents shows that courts have approved of this technique, even though it raises questions about entrapment, the problems of identifying who's using an open wireless connection--and whether anyone who clicks on a FBI link that contains no child pornography should be automatically subject to a dawn raid by federal police.

Roderick Vosburgh, a doctoral student at Temple University who also taught history at La Salle University, was raided at home in February 2007 after he allegedly clicked on the FBI's hyperlink. Federal agents knocked on the door around 7 a.m., falsely claiming they wanted to talk to Vosburgh about his car. Once he opened the door, they threw him to the ground outside his house and handcuffed him.

[Josh]

Well, guess I'll never go to /b again.

[Cowutopia]

pretty much

[MarsKitten]

With child porn here's how it works. If you say or represent they're underage, they are for all intents and purposes of prosecution. And yes we can legislate morality even when there's no particular/provable/probable harm. That includes all produced pieces under the guise of trying to remove the market and demand for them. The logic goes: if there's no child porn, the demand for it and its production will go down resulting in less harmed children as well as items that "encourage" it.

You know just like porn increases the incidence of rape. Mere possession is all the law requires with no intent.

[Dolemite]

COMICS ARE INK WTF

I mean, seriously, I guess I can understand if one character's an obvious little girl who tells a dude in his 40's "Please, Mister, I'm only 8, please stop dicking me" and he's all like "And a dicking we will go, I love fucking kids, BWA-HA-HA." But otherwise arresting a guy for gay comic porn when the apparent age of the characters is clearly debatable is some pure Iron Curtain shit.

And the two stories 'cheeks posted are pretty disturbing. Orwell, motherfuckers.

[Dolemite]

/b

Wuzzat?

[Fe 26]

The logic goes: if there's no child porn, the demand for it and its production will go down resulting in less harmed children as well as items that "encourage" it.

That goes against a very basic fundamental of business. A fundamental mind you, that the most stupid, spoiled, and self entitled of white people understand. We are talking about a fact of capitalism that 5 year olds understand.

That kind of logic is superstitious nonsense. It is the kind of argument where objects and things make magical stuff happen. Like "only bad people stay up past 10 so if you stay up past 10, you're bad" or "you can turn gay if you talk to gay people."

And we are talking about sex. Shit that is wired into your DNA. NO ONE JUST TURNS FUCKING PED! No one thinks "oh well, I'm tired of nice round asses and tits, I think I'lll go diddle a 12 year old that is as flat as a wall."


How the shit do grown adults of such stupidity get through law school? Are there no weed out classes?

[Fe 26]

You know just like porn increases the incidence of rape.

I will not believe this without some serious research. I doubt the vikings were watching DP.