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Posted: 4/16/2002 5:04:24 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/16/2002 8:49:20 PM EDT
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The ban on "virtual child porn" is pretty f*cking stupid. It's one of those laws where (1) pornography is in the eye of the beholder, and (2) "child" is turned into a vague "if it looks like a child, we'll treat it as if it were".
I had a girlfriend in college who was 22, but looked 12. Literally. She couldn't buy a drink because nobody would believe her ID. She got thrown out of a convention we went to because they wouldn't believe she was a college student. If I'd ever taken a naked picture of her, I would have been turned in by the developing lab, no doubt about it. Would that count as "virtual child porn"? Or would I have to photoshop her face onto some skinny 19-year-old's body before it would count as "virtual"? And then, what's pornography? Is it any nude photo (as has been judged by local standards in Memphis, TN)? Or is California's standard of "two guys and a dog" the one to use? Dumb, stupid, bad, [red]evil[/red] law. The Supremes were right to strike it down. |
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Posted: 4/16/2002 10:22:25 PM EDT
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“The aim of ensuring the enforceability of our nation’s child pornography laws is a compelling one,” Rehnquist wrote for the pair. “The [law] is targeted to this aim by extending the definition of child pornography to reach computer-generated images that are virtually indistinguishable from real children engaged in sexually explicit conduct.” Aren't laws such as this supposed to protect children by prosecuting those who are involved in forcing them to perform sexual acts? If the "porn" is created entirely on a computer, there is no victim to protect. Don't get me wrong - anybody who finds a child's body sexually attractive or trafficks in the exploitation of children is one sick fuck. However, those who defend the extension of this victim protection law to created images need to find a damn good reason for the extension, simply because there is no victim to protect. |
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