I have acknowledges a couple of times that I probably should have warned you, but I do see little understanding from some that these things may occur. Also I as a foreigner find that I´m held responsible for the effects of stupid laws in other countries.
I´m sitting here at home in my own country, acting within the laws of my country. Of course I may try to take some cultural differences into consideration, like trying not to discuss political or religious issues (like Lebanon and Israel) or showing drawings of Muhammad, but things happen when the foreign rules are introduced being opposed to the local juridical logic, one may forget. It happens all ways, especially when religion and politics is introduced. For my part I hate it when some middle state theorist starts talking about religiously related north European court cases, but at least know that I should have shut up :-) Of course it is strange that the most important country in inventing the internet is one of the countries where using it is dangerous, but ... this whole thing reminds me of a story about rental cares in the US, with a sticker in the rear mirror says "remember that what you see in the mirror is behind you". I don´t know if it´s true, but it fits with the impression we get on the outside sometimes. The advice to citizens in some countries should be: "Don´t follow any link if you do not know the content in advance". DagT Den 21. jul. 2006 kl. 20.30 skrev Aaron Reynolds: > DagT, ridiculing the laws of another country, even when they > deserve to be ridiculed, does not make them less applicable to > inhabitants of those countries. > > Our child pornography laws over-reach and have terrible > consequences for innocent people who run afoul of them. I think > they are poorly thought out and badly implemented. Despite my > disagreement with them, I am not immune from prosecution. > > A large portion of this list are from North America and are subject > to the same idiotic laws. In deference to these people, can you > please post a content warning with your links? > > Recently, a man spent several months in jail on child pornography > charges. He was turned in by a photofinisher (who is obligated > under the law to report anything vaguely resembling child porn ) > for a photograph of him kissing his infant's belly. He was held > without bail because a seizure and search of his computer turned up > photos of a relative's children frolicking in a sprinkler in the > backyard -- not even saved pictures, but cached ones, because the > relative had made an online gallery and sent him the link. > > Of course, when it went to trial the case was thrown out, but the > man lost months of his life. > > Yes, I live in a country with stupid laws. But I would be more > stupid to ignore them and put myself at risk. I am no martyr and I > don't want to miss out on any part of my son's life because I > wasn't careful. > > -Aaron > > -----Original Message----- > > From: DagT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subj: Re: PESO - Jump > Date: Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:55 pm > Size: 1K > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > > Den 21. jul. 2006 kl. 15.30 skrev William Robb: > >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "mike wilson" >> Subject: Re: PESO - Jump >> >>> >>> Why do they need to be naked? Paedophiles sexualise children. >>> End of >>> story. _Any_ child photo is fair game. >>> >> >> May be end of story in your mind, ut you could try reading the rest >> of the >> story. >> Child porn laws sexualize children, and therin lies the problem for >> people >> who innocently click on an internet link. > > If you can be prosecuted for finding something by accident on an > internet link you should stay off the internet. > > Either that, or you are being more than a little bit paranoid. > > Here´s a nice little story: > My wife had a rare family name when I met her. I think there were 28 > people in Norway, and probably in the world, with that name. So, you > should think it was safe to make a search on that name on the > internet. The third hit on Altavista was, however, to a pornographic > web site featuring schoolgirls. So, if that happened at an office in > the US or in Canada I could be arrested? Wow! > > Oh, and by the way, the explanation was probably simple as one of the > persons with that name is an HTML programmer, and one of the modules > he has made may have been used by the website. Maybe he could have > been arrested as well? > > DagT > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
