Post: Look the laws are ridiculous
Look the laws are ridiculous →
Posted Friday 17th August 2007 02:54 GMT
In 'Law and Order' cop accused of child porn possession
You know that picture your mother has of you when you were like 3 doing something stupid while naked? The one that she'll take out one day 25 years after the fact and have a laugh with your fiancee? The one that has been made fun of in dozens of movies over the decades?
That picture could land your mom in jail under current US child pornography rules.
Some properly documented pornographic images of adult women have been deemed child pornography because the actress/model "looked" like she could be under 18.
Heck, I am not sure if we can even talk about this so "explicitly" under the letter of US child pornography laws.
See, the most serious crime regarding these laws is that they are no longer about protecting the children from harm. The laws have become an excuse for a witch hunt.
I've got no clue what exactly is going on here, for all I know this guy is a craven pedophile and deserves far worse than prison. Then again, this guy could have a college aged mistress who "looks" young- maybe she wore a school girl outfit and pigtails for him one night or some other stupidity.
My point is that the laws are so out of whack in this area that we can draw no conclusions whatsoever from this report.
What I can conclude is that once again Best Buy Geek Squad staff has been snooping around in user documents.
