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Child porn is bits too. People seem to be okay with making those bits illegal.
by AndyKelley 13y ago
Child porn is bits too. People seem to be okay with making those bits illegal.
- dllthomas 13y agoI'm not.
- AndyKelley 13y agoMe either. I don't believe in information ownership.
- dllthomas 13y agoI don't see how the issues are linked. Do they simply stem from a common philosophy, or does a disbelief in information ownership somehow entail inability to punish for possession?
- AndyKelley 13y agoThe way I see it, information possession and ownership are the same thing, and neither concept should be recognized by the law. What does it mean to possess bits? Do they have to be on a physical media on my property? What if I have a network drive? Do they have to be on a server that I have access to? Does that mean that we're all in possession of everything that is made public on the Internet? There are ways to answer these questions, but I'm not convinced that we have anything to gain from the government doing so.
- oleganza 13y agoUnfortunately, making child porn illegal is a waste of time if the goal is to protect children from abuse. In reality, though, "protecting children" is a banner under which people grab more abusive power. In my view, everyone who is actively fighting with tertiary effects of a social problem is either stupid or plain evil.