Well.
No sooner had I put my last post up, than I heard that a UK man has been convicted of possessing child porn, in the form of computer-generated "Tomb-Raider-like" images. (Found via ¡Journalista! and Icarus Pub NSFW.)
Let's be clear about what's going on here.
No actual children were involved. So you can't really say this case protects children, unless you want to tread close to some kind of prior restraint-style protecting; that is, protecting children against what you think someone might do.
One person in the linked article says faked child porn "feeds the demand". That, however, is remarkably stupid. Of course pedophiles will try to create material that appeals to them. With the advances of technology, they may be able to create more-and-more realistic images without involving real children, but what do you think is really going to happen if you deny people those tools or the images they create? I fear that if fake child porn is aggressively pursued, it will just mean a resurgence in real child porn. What's the difference, if the penalties are the same either way?
So you can't say this guy was actually molesting real children, and attacking it as somehow supplying the need of pedophiles is short-sighted and moronic. What you're left with, then, is convicting this guy on the basis of his alleged fantasies. His thoughts upon seeing these images.
And I know what some of you may be thinking: "Well, he's just some pedo, he doesn't deserve the same rights as the rest of us." Which, if you really did think that, only makes my point for me. The accused denies interest in child porn. (And who wouldn't?) We can't truly know another's mind, so you have to assume the suspicions are true and then decide that simply having taboo thoughts or fantasies is by itself worthy of criminal conviction. This is, as George Orwell once put it, thoughtcrime.
Parents should begin stitching up those burqas.
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If I had a girl and she took some pics of herself without clothes am I obligated to turn her in for creating kiddy porn? would grounding her and destroying the pics count as Aiding and Abetting or something?
If my Wife took some hot photos for me back when we were abit underage(26 now)and I still think she was hot am I a sick perv? Should I be disgusted by them? ....Crap! If I still had those pics it might be a crime! Crap! I wonder if any of the pics from her box have her a little to suggestive and underage. If so do I have to turn her in to avoid jail? I know what they do to people in jail accused of being a sick perv.
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