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This is as disgusting as the crime its trying to rid us off.

Its modern-day witch hunt and completely skips over the fact that many sex-offenders where in fact themselves victims when they were children.

Populism when its worst.



And I was bullied at school. That's why I spend my day browsing child-beating websites.

But seriously, I have to disagree. I'm aware of the absurdities that arise from populist demonisation of paedophiles. (E.g. the 17-year-old girl who arrested for child porn because she sent a picture of her tits to her boyfriend.) But I really think we should take steps to choke off the demand for live images of child abuse.


Disagree away you are not taking any demands away from anything it will just find other avenues and forums.

Just as in war on drugs.


I don't claim we can entirely eliminate it, but we can (and do) make it a helluva lot harder than it might be if we took a laissez faire attitude. I think that has a real effect on children's lives.


How so? The crime is in the child abuse, not in someone getting off on it. No child is being abused here.




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