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.
You keep fixating on one half of my point (this law shouldn't exist) while completely ignoring and not addressing the rational (it does basically nothing to help children at great cost to your rights). In no way am I endorsing generating child porn, but this is a retarded way to try and prevent that.
This isn't a "slippery slope" argument, the specific law we are discussing is already an example of stepping too far.
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.
Nah, there’s no slippery slope here. Don’t generate CSAM.
You keep fixating on one half of my point (this law shouldn't exist) while completely ignoring and not addressing the rational (it does basically nothing to help children at great cost to your rights). In no way am I endorsing generating child porn, but this is a retarded way to try and prevent that.
This isn't a "slippery slope" argument, the specific law we are discussing is already an example of stepping too far.