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Re:Gosh!
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by janrinok (846318) on Saturday July 07, @11:58AM (#19780383)
Have you ever walked down a street and seen a teenager. Did you think you were looking at pornography? Or perhaps, like any normal person, seeing someone else of whatever age you care to mention is, well, normal. Now if you know that TPB has been facilitating the transfer of images showing children in 'erotic' poses or actually being abused then you are correct in your assertion that it is child pornography. But please don't suggest that any image or someone under the age of, say, 16 years is 'child pornography'. It isn't. What about the images that are produced at each class graduation? Are they pornography too? And photographs taken on a beach during the summer holidays - do they count as pornography? I would say that it is perfectly natural for a boy of 16 years to want to look at images of girls of about the same age group. So what would make them 'Underage Teen Models'. I don't know how old you are, but have you been looking at them too? I don't use TPB but I am a keen amateur photographer. I get fed up
of idiots who wish to impose their own puritanical views on the rest of the world, which just happens to be far more adult over this sort of thing and can manage without having others telling us how we should think. We don't have a problem with nudist beaches either, nor naked breasts on TV.
Re:TPB have been warned about this many times.
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by QCompson (675963) on Saturday July 07, @10:39AM (#19779759)
So I can understand why the cops want to do this. I'm not sure they are legally in the clear, but I would like to see those kinds of torrents gone from pirate bay.
Great. Let's allow governments to censor the internet not based on any illegality, but because "you would like to see those kinds of torrents gone from pirate bay."
The original intention of most child pornography laws was to prevent the sexual abuse of children, not to ban pictures that make people feel creepy.
If a 17-year-old gets punished for having sex with a 15-year-old, it's a gross injustice, but when adults look at images of naked 15-year-olds they're loathsome basement rock spiders that need therapy? That is a completely absurd double standard!
Even "real" pedophiles (attracted to pre-pubescent children) aren't harming anyone just by looking at child porn. They are only encouraging the creation of cp if they pay for it or trade. You can tell yourself that they just need some therapy, but you'd be lying, because therapy often does absolutely nothing! Pedophiles have a horrible problem that's a huge burden for them, and child porn is a harmless victimless way to deal with their feelings. Pedophilia should be treated more like cancer or autism, not murder!
Did you know that even simulated cp, including drawings, is currently illegal in the United States despite the Supreme Court already deciding twice that such laws are unconstitutional? Does that not sound like irrational hatred to you?! It's not going to help anyone to call pedos sickos and freaks and say they need harsher punishments and more therapy.