Originally posted by benrl
reply to post by boncho
No you do not, you don't just stumble on Child porn, even if your on 4chan your not going to end up with a cache full of CP.
And I just had an epiphany
This will cause the crack down on the internet, from the out cry of the rest of the country. This will be the reason they will usher in SOPA like
Regulation on the internet.
"to protect the children."
Its a set up.edit on 9-5-2012 by benrl because: (no reason given)
No. BUT THAT IS EXACTLY MY POINT.
There should be some discretion within the law. Under a law that an image in the cache of your computer can be prosecuted, simple accidental exposure
could send someone to jail.
Now, there was a story in BC about 6 months ago? Where pictures were taken of a naked 16 year old and plastered across facebook, it eventually became
a case with much more involved in it. However, people were prosecuted for the pictures on facebook. Does that mean, every person that clicked on it
should be prosecuted? As information sharing is so easy that you can simply click, link and someone else can see it, it doesn't give time for people
assess whether or not images are legal.
And then 4chan was mentioned as well. Better just to stay away from that....
Now, on the other hand, you find someone with thousands of images in their cache. Surely this law cannot protect them. That is where the discretion is
needed.