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Witchhunt on child porn
In many countries just searching for nude pictures of underage children is now defined as a crime. The age at which something is defined as child porn has been raised from 14 to 16 to 18 and some are calling for a raise to 21. The posession of many legally produced magazines produced in the 70s, 80s and 90s is now forbidden. Some perfectly normal movies with pornographic scenes are now dubious to show and forbidden to be produced.
The child itself does not seem to matter any more. It does not matter if abuse is involved.
Two children photographing eachother is a crime.
A famous photographer doing it is a crime.
Photography at a nude beach is a crime.
Photographing a nude adult who looks younger than 18 is a crime.
Looking at any of these pictures is a crime.
These measures have nothing to do with protecting children from abuse. The governements, under influence of Christian movements, are imposing morals and values on us. It is almost like thought-crime. The content of everyone generating a decent amount of internet traffic is being looked at. That is how they rolled up all those "child porn networks" this year.
I think this will backfire. First of all it will undermine the current succes of faith-based political ideologies. Legislators in these movements are slowly alienating themselves from the general populace by suggesting more drastic moral-based legislation. There are numerous examples.
Secondly the real perverts will now have to organize better and resort to more serious criminal activities in order to obtain material that is now no longer normally available in magazines and the internet like it used to be. Ironically it is the children who are suffering under this.
Last edited by erikvv; 12-26-2007 at 03:43 AM.
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