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Media made from victimizing children is not "free speech" in my book.

• Xylakant 14y ago
  No, certainly not. However, in Germany "child porn" was extended to encompass any (fictional) written narrative [1] as well as paintings or renderings - including manga - or any video involving adult actors that look like minors. So there's a case to be made that not all material that might seem interesting to a child porn consumer produces victims. I'm not an expert in that field, but constantly extending the covered topics is certainly not helpful. [1] Kubricks Lolita could be illegal in germany now http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056193/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056193/
• gambiting 14y ago
  No, but a possession of any kind of media should not be a crime by itself. Nobody is harmed by a video/picture sitting on your hard drive. If you say that it might encourage anyone to do anything - then why is it perfectly legal to have videos of murders and gore?
  • aes256 14y ago
    This. Punish those who cause harm. Possessing a certain sequence of 0s and 1s does not cause harm.
  • geoka9 14y ago
    Right, you may not even know that you have such media sitting in your browser's cache. All it takes is clicking on some link in a spam message, for example. Even if you immediately close it, the damage is done and you don't even know it.