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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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