Child Pornography Legality

also child porn laws: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40712506

Check http://falkvinge.net/2012/09/07/three-reasons-child-porn-mus... to think a bit more about the other side of the matter.

what about child pornography? that cool to as long as one doesn’t use it?

Child porn is bits too. People seem to be okay with making those bits illegal.

I have never distributed child pornography or snuff films. I'm already not subjecting anyone to it. Communications channels exist. Unless you want to undo that, or enable this behavior, you have to deal with it somehow.

What of the reddit sub that hosts pictures of dead children? What of videos of adults being sexually abused (not staged, actual abuse)? What of videos/images of other crimes that could cause emotional damage to those victims if the content were to spread? What of the abuse of the current laws to punish teens for engaging in what is quickly becoming normal behavior? What of the potential for the government to create systems to catch this one exception we make that we then once again find

In my opinion, downloading and looking at pictures of naked children shouldn't be a crime. Making child porn also shouldn't be a crime unless it falls under child abuse laws. For example, animated or CGI child porn should be legal because its production and consumption harms no one. (Currently it's illegal and people have gone to jail for it.) We stopped imprisoning and castrating homosexuals sometime ago, but apparently people can't internalize the too-abstract ideas of "victimless crime" and "

hmm? 'Rape' has auto suggestions.In general I dont think that consumption of child pornography is much of a crime, the harm has been done by then, and some poor sad git masturbating over a 3 year old isn't going to make it any worse.Personally I would rather they put significant resources into catching those people who create it, than into changing search engines and blocking dns addresses so that everyone can pretend it doesn't exist.

Do you really have a problem with that? They didnt make the porn. It's not like removing it would prevent it from being made in the first place. They were capturing information on additional pedophiles. In what world are you trying to frame that as wrong.

Drug prohibition is a different issue.Yes, there are cases of things which are not child porn in spirit, however its important to remember that there are things that are actual child porn. There are pictures of young children and toddlers and babies being raped. We don't see them in the mass media, because they are disgusting, but they exist. Don't forget that creating this pictures is probably one of the most horrific and harmful crimes in modern society.