I agree with you that LE is wasting way to much money watching viewers. It's like chasing down people who use illegal drugs when there's a concaine farm right next to the police station. They're merely using it as a fear tactic "nobody who is involved in pedophilia is safe" but it's just a joke. (Similar to how RIAA is suing filesharers)
On 5/15/06, Mike Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thus spake Ringo Kamens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I want to add my two cents about child porn. Censorship is censorship, it > doesn't matter what you censor or by what logic you censor. Banning child > porn is censorship, copyright is censorship, and stopping people from > speaking who have opposing political views is censrorship. It seems to be a > well known fact that freenet is filled with pedophilia, yet freenet is just > fine and dandy. If pedophilia was a *real* threat to privacy services, then > proxies wouldn't exist. The other issue is why is law enforcement energy being wasted at targeting people who *look* at child porn instead of those who actually provide the porn - or worse, create the porn. While all three groups of people are unquestionably sick, two groups are actively engaging in the exploitation of children where the other is just watching it like a train wreck. Since law enforcement capacity is clearly finite, you would think even fanatical people should be able realize that if you really want to protect children, you go balls to the wall to find or at least shut down the PRODUCERS of the content, and stop wasting valuable resources going after small time consumers who for all we know may actually be less likely to harm real children if they are able to satisfy their sick fantasies via imagination and not reality. Hell, "consumers" can even be framed by crackers using their machines to download/store the stuff. Targeting consumers of child porn seems to be too convienient a way to ram all sorts of BS legislation through congress, wasting both tax and ISP $$ in the process, and doing way more harm to the rights of average people than to pedophiles. -- Mike Perry Mad Computer Scientist fscked.org evil labs
