Laws like this impede everyone while providing little tangible benefit for actual children. It's silly to imply that generating an image with a model hurts anyone.
In general I don't like legislation that tries to criminalize abstract depictions of something that would otherwise be a crime. It's too intangible, and opens the opportunity for abusing the legal system to persecute undesirables. We have to be really careful about what spiders we swallow to catch small (or sometimes imaginary) flies.
You don't feel impeded right now, but let enough stupid stuff like this through and you'll slowly drip feed your rights away. I explained in my post above why this is bad - if you make it a crime to do a simple thing, it becomes very easy to falsely accuse a person of a crime, and act in other authoritarian ways.
I already have personal experience facing strong arm measures under the pretext of "protecting the kids". Last time I returned to my home country of Australia, the policy forcibly did a digital search of my phone, on the pretext of looking for child porn. I have my banks details and pics of my girlfriend on that thing. In no first world country should I have to surrender it to authorities without a warrant. No one would tolerate this bullshit for any other reason then the moral panic around children.
I'm anti-pedophilia, but the legislation the article is talking about is incredibly stupid. We don't accept invasive police-state tactics to combat any other crime, we shouldn't accept them here.
Laws like this impede everyone while providing little tangible benefit for actual children. It's silly to imply that generating an image with a model hurts anyone.
In general I don't like legislation that tries to criminalize abstract depictions of something that would otherwise be a crime. It's too intangible, and opens the opportunity for abusing the legal system to persecute undesirables. We have to be really careful about what spiders we swallow to catch small (or sometimes imaginary) flies.
Only pedophiles are impeded. And that’s fine with me.
I don’t feel remotely impeded by this and neither do most other people. No one needs to generate CSAM.
You don't feel impeded right now, but let enough stupid stuff like this through and you'll slowly drip feed your rights away. I explained in my post above why this is bad - if you make it a crime to do a simple thing, it becomes very easy to falsely accuse a person of a crime, and act in other authoritarian ways.
I already have personal experience facing strong arm measures under the pretext of "protecting the kids". Last time I returned to my home country of Australia, the policy forcibly did a digital search of my phone, on the pretext of looking for child porn. I have my banks details and pics of my girlfriend on that thing. In no first world country should I have to surrender it to authorities without a warrant. No one would tolerate this bullshit for any other reason then the moral panic around children.
I'm anti-pedophilia, but the legislation the article is talking about is incredibly stupid. We don't accept invasive police-state tactics to combat any other crime, we shouldn't accept them here.
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