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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

He was a defender of child porn though.

https://web.archive.org/web/20031229025933/http:/bits.are.notabug.com/

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Assuming this is actually by the guy, here is what the linked article says about child porn:

In the US, it is illegal to possess or distribute child pornography, apparently because doing so will encourage people to sexually abuse children.

This is absurd logic. Child pornography is not necessarily abuse. Even if it was, preventing the distribution or posession of the evidence won't make the abuse go away. We don't arrest everyone with videotapes of murders, or make it illegal for TV stations to show people being killed.

Wired has an article on how these laws destroy honest people's lives.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Child pornography is not necessarily abuse.

Yikes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

An image of an event is not the event. That's the reasoning there. There's some sense of logic there, though the knowledge their abuse is used by pedophiles can absolutely be a continuing trauma for the victims.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

OK a reason to not like him but sending him to prison for his views that he didnt act on sounds like fasicm lol I dont agree with his views just saying