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Re:Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it sugge... by MagicPropmaker on Thursday January 10, 2019 @04:42PM (#18878522)
This is the way it must be. Otherwise an underage person could, say, send nude photos of herself to all her teachers, call the FBI, and have them all arrested while she faces no penalty. If simply having the file on your computer is illegal, then any creator of this content, no matter what his or her age, must be liable.
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Re:Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it sugge... by DanBC on Thursday January 10, 2019 @04:49PM (#18878600)
There's no public interest in prosecuting a 15 year old who willingly sends an image of themself to another 15 year old.

It's a fucking stupid thing for them to do, but criminal justice system isn't the solution for that.

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Re:Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it sugge... by Fjolsvith on Thursday January 10, 2019 @09:02PM (#18880420)
Except when the recipient forwards it on to his buddies and the picture then makes it into the Internet.
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Re:Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it sugge... by DanBC on Friday January 11, 2019 @04:33AM (#18882046)
Even then you don't prosecute the person in the image, even if they took the photograph. You prosecute the people distributing the image.
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Re:Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it sugge... by SllX on Thursday January 10, 2019 @05:03PM (#18878716)
That is a fairly programmatic, not judicious, interpretation of how the law and morality intersect. Maybe the people involved, law enforcement and the courts are a bit better than mere computers. Just a thought.
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Re:Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it sugge... by kiriakasis on Thursday January 10, 2019 @04:58PM (#18878683)
Nope, if I hide cocaine in your house the crime is mine. If person X send person Y unsolicited CP with the intention of calling the police on them I am pretty sure X is committing a crime.

It might be hard for Y to prove this though.

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Re:Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it sugge... by MagicPropmaker on Thursday January 10, 2019 @05:25PM (#18878932)
That's not the way the law works with illegal pornography. There is no legal defense to possession.
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Re:Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it sugge... by int_19h on Thursday January 10, 2019 @08:15PM (#18880191)
To be more precise, in most jurisdictions, there's strict liability for possession of child pornography. Which means that mens rea, or even awareness of the crime, is not required.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_liability_(criminal)

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Re:Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it sugge... by hopler on Thursday January 10, 2019 @04:50PM (#18878612)
So it's not the way it must be, if the existing insane laws are repealed.
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