How a federal spy case turned into a child pornography prosecution

Re:How a federal spy case turned into a child pornography pr... by kefka on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @04:50PM (#11441994)

My view of having a mens rea requirement with child porn statues are derided with comments like:

"Congratulations, you're now on an FBI watch list." ( (s)he did agree with me)

Yet if there is no guilty mind, there should be no crime. Frankly possession of CP shouldn't be a crime at all, because it is proof of a crime. Snuff videos aren't illegal. Rape videos (of 18+) aren't illegal. Just horrible videos are that: horrible. They aren't illegal.

And that's not to go after the idea of "I plant CP on your machines..." Strict liability means you lose.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11431128

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Re:How a federal spy case turned into a child pornography pr... by danielvinson on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @05:46PM (#11442414)

While you do have a point, I don't think there is a single first-world country where it is legal. That means that everyone in power, everywhere, agrees on this at least to some degree, meaning that it probably won't change any time soon.

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Re:How a federal spy case turned into a child pornography pr... by SixSigma on Thursday April 07, 2016 @10:46AM (#11447655)

> Rape videos (of 18+) aren't illegal. Just horrible videos are that: horrible. They aren't illegal.

They are in the UK. sigh

EDIT: oops, believed the hype

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Re:How a federal spy case turned into a child pornography pr... by DanBC on Thursday April 07, 2016 @11:00AM (#11447769)

Only if they're actually rape. People can give consent for BDSM style role play video.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/4/part/5/crossheadi...

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/2/section/37/enacte...

And there are some limited defences of images of actual rape - a 3rd party secretly planting the material doesn't count.

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