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I did a little googling, and destroying the porn would actually be the right thing to do and so shouldn't get you in trouble. According to "18 U.S. Code § 2252A
by blatherard 11y ago
I did a little googling, and destroying the porn would actually be the right thing to do and so shouldn't get you in trouble. According to "18 U.S. Code § 2252A - Certain activities relating to material constituting or containing child pornography", an affirmative defense is not having much and either deleting it promptly or reporting it:
(d) Affirmative Defense.— It shall be an affirmative defense to a charge of
violating subsection (a)(5) that the defendant—
(1) possessed less than three images of child pornography;
and
(2) promptly and in good faith, and without retaining or allowing any person,
other than a law enforcement agency, to access any image or copy thereof—
(A) took reasonable steps to destroy each such image;
or
(B) reported the matter to a law enforcement agency
and afforded that agency access to each such image.
(source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2252A https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2252A)
- gizmo686 11y agoIn this hypothetical case, wouldent (1) still give you a problem, as it is likely that your browser downloaded more than three images. In that case, you are already in violation of this law, regardless of what you proceed to do with the images, so clearing your cache would be illegal.
- juliangregorian 11y agoYeah, reporting it is definitely the right thing to do and would totally go well for you. /s
- blatherard 11y agoDid you notice the "or"? Just delete it if you feel that way.
- DanBC 11y agoOn a tangent: if people do accidentally find indecent images of children, or images of child sexual abuse, there are methods to report those images anonymously. The Internet Watch foundation is one site. There are probably others for different countries. https://www.iwf.org.uk/ https://www.iwf.org.uk/ The IWF has just announced a collaboration with Google, Facebook, Twitter: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33844124 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33844124
- LordKano 11y agoI'm not sure when this section of the US Code became law but back in the 1990s, I was looking at some adult material and I followed a link to some .ru site that had material that was highly suspect. I made note of the domain, closed my browser and opened the phone book. I called the local FBI office and reported the site. I never heard anything else on the matter. To be honest, I was more worried that it was a honeypot and I wanted to make sure that if they were watching, they knew that I didn't go there on purpose.
- LordKano 11y agoThat's an affirmative defense to possession but not to the destruction of evidence. The man in this story wasn't otherwise implicated in the terrorist plot but they got him for deleting his internet cache because he was afraid of how it would look.