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There is a difference between viewing and creating pedophilic pornography. Certainly, demand drives creation, but one pageview is not one child raped. One whis
by sirsar 12y ago
There is a difference between viewing and creating pedophilic pornography. Certainly, demand drives creation, but one pageview is not one child raped.
One whistleblower pageview is much more likely to be one whistle blown, which can have impact ranging from nothing to an arbitrary number of lives saved.
- chris_wot 12y agoWow. Just wow. You guys are seriously comparing the impact of whistleblowers to the impact of child rape?
- aaronem 12y agoWelcome to Hacker News!
- ethomson 12y agoI'm sympathetic to your suggestion that a whistle blow may have far reaching consequences. But as you suggest, it may not. It may have no impact at all. It may be wholly inconsequential. It may be a misunderstanding, a hoax. Meanwhile, a child was abused to make kiddy porn. No equivocation there. To suggest that the aforementioned whistleblower is always more positive than the kiddy porn is negative is shocking. To then try put a ratio on it seems particularly callous.
- paperplane 12y ago> Meanwhile, a child was abused to make kiddy porn. Drawn pictures (e.g. manga) are absolutely considered child porn in large parts of the world (e.g. the UK).