Rick Falkvinge: Why free speech is harmed by the ban on child porn

Re:Rick Falkvinge: Why free speech is harmed by the ban on c... by guard-of-terra on Sunday September 09, 2012 @11:46AM (#4496040)

But if you look from another angle - why should cocaine possession be illegal at all?

Cocaine seems (to me) to be somewhat less severe drug than, say, alcohol.

Same applies to child porn. A lot of stuff qualifies as child porn recently, including stuff originally not meant to be any kind of porn neither produced with any harm to kids. Unless child porn prosecution proponents can limit themself with some strict definition of child porn (which they would not do), I say we lose by criminalizing possession of random pics that were considered OK thirty years before.

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Re:Rick Falkvinge: Why free speech is harmed by the ban on c... by Symmetry on Sunday September 09, 2012 @08:23PM (#4497629)

Most of the studies I've seen say that cocaine is roughly as dangerous to the user as cocaine, but that someone using alcohol is much more likely to end up harming others.

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Re:Rick Falkvinge: Why free speech is harmed by the ban on c... by 385668 on Monday September 10, 2012 @01:23AM (#4498429)

And I'm a member of the tautology club because I'm a member of the tautology club.

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Re:Rick Falkvinge: Why free speech is harmed by the ban on c... by rmc on Monday September 10, 2012 @03:04AM (#4498662)

Drug prohibition is a different issue.

Yes, there are cases of things which are not child porn in spirit, however its important to remember that there are things that are actual child porn. There are pictures of young children and toddlers and babies being raped. We don't see them in the mass media, because they are disgusting, but they exist. Don't forget that creating this pictures is probably one of the most horrific and harmful crimes in modern society.

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Re:Rick Falkvinge: Why free speech is harmed by the ban on c... by guard-of-terra on Monday September 10, 2012 @06:06AM (#4499051)

Okay, but how does it justify criminalizing 16 years old taking shots of themselves?

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Re:Rick Falkvinge: Why free speech is harmed by the ban on c... by rmc on Monday September 10, 2012 @07:46AM (#4499276)

I don't think that should be illegal. The reason its illegal is stupid "think of the children" / "why are our kids having sex?" / 'sex is bad' voters.

However real child porn should be illegal.

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Re:Rick Falkvinge: Why free speech is harmed by the ban on c... by guard-of-terra on Monday September 10, 2012 @08:43AM (#4499429)

That's what I said. "Unless child porn prosecution proponents can limit themself with some strict definition of child porn (which they would not do), I say we lose by criminalizing possession of random pics that were considered OK thirty years before." If the logical expression is true, real child porn can remain illegal. The problem is - the logical expression is false right now.

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