It's now a federal offense to even SAY "I have child porn"

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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/services ... 7677.story

Court backs child-porn restriction

Mark Sherman | The Associated Press
May 20, 2008

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Monday that leading someone to believe you have child pornography to show or exchange is a federal crime, brushing aside concerns that the law could apply to mainstream movies that depict adolescent sex, classic literature or e-mails that describe photos of grandchildren.

The court, in a 7-2 decision, upheld a law aimed at cracking down on the online exchange of illicit images of children.

Joan Bertin, executive director of the National Coalition Against Censorship, said Justice Antonin Scalia's narrow reading of the law in his majority opinion should result in "considerably less damage than it might otherwise have done." But, Bertin said, prosecutors still could try to punish people for innocent activity.

The ruling upheld part of a 2003 law that also prohibits possession of child pornography. It replaced an earlier law the court had struck down as unconstitutional.

The new law sets a five-year mandatory prison term for promoting, or pandering, child pornography. It does not require that someone actually possess child pornography.

Opponents have said the law could apply to movies such as Traffic or Titanic that depict adolescent sex or the marketing of other material that might not be pornography.

Scalia's opinion said the law takes a reasonable approach to the issue by applying it to situations where the purveyor of the material believes or wants a listener to believe that he has child pornography.

The First Amendment does not protect "offers to provide or requests to obtain child pornography," Scalia said.

Sorry Krye.

[Khamsin]

Have fun in prison, you've just committed a federal offense.

[Beckwin]

cool, the supreme court should raid 4chan and just be done with it in one swift blow.

seriously though, making this illegal on top of possession is just dumb. the damage is done in the creation of the cp. this is the equivalent of cracking down on stoner kids and stoner jokes instead of actually trying to stop the production and distribution of marijuana (not saying I support that, just an analogy).

gonna have to remember this whenever a discussion of judicial activism comes up again. it ain't just libruls giving minorities rights anymore!

[Lordwafik]

So if having a picture of near nude children (in a sunbathing suit at a beach!) is going to be a federal offense, will the act of taking the children to said beach = an act of child pornography?

Stupid american laws.

[Day]

Yeah, I don't know about this. Seems kind of fucked up. I'm all for cracking down on CP but is this really the road we want to start heading down? Seems like some awful loose wording there.

[Kaliden]

cool, the supreme court should raid 4chan and just be done with it in one swift blow.

seriously though, making this illegal on top of possession is just dumb. the damage is done in the creation of the cp. this is the equivalent of cracking down on stoner kids and stoner jokes instead of actually trying to stop the production and distribution of marijuana (not saying I support that, just an analogy).

gonna have to remember this whenever a discussion of judicial activism comes up again. it ain't just libruls giving minorities rights anymore!

Couldn't have said it better myself. Prison overcrowding is a huge problem, yet most of the tenants are non-violent offenders.

[Ryany]

I guess everyone that admits to owning Nirvana's "Nevermind" album now gets a minimum of 5 years.

[Kiro]

I guess everyone that admits to owning Nirvana's "Nevermind" album now gets a minimum of 5 years.

Fucking hell.

[Kaliden]

I guess everyone that admits to owning Nirvana's "Nevermind" album now gets a minimum of 5 years.

Fucking hell.

Shit.

I'd be more worried about this one: http://www.gigwise.com/article?id=41675 ... 50#gallery

[Kuya]

I guess everyone that admits to owning Nirvana's "Nevermind" album now gets a minimum of 5 years.

Fucking hell.

Oh fuck!

[Krandor]

If that led to every copy of the album on the planet being destroyed in mass bonfires, we'd be off to a good start.

[Kaliden]

I like Nirvana, anyway the kid was under a year old at the time, so it's safe territory.

[Stolin]

I know what boys like
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ily_Guy%29.JPG
I know what guys want

[Beckwin]

If that led to every copy of the album on the planet being destroyed in mass bonfires, we'd be off to a good start.

yeah so we can listen to more metallica bwaaarggaaahaaaa-yeah

[Correction]

If that led to every copy of the album on the planet being destroyed in mass bonfires, we'd be off to a good start.

You'd have to destroy rather more albums than that one to get rid of it all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houses_of_the_Holy

Off the top of my head. There are others but they're not coming to me right now.

[Kiro]

Haha, that top 50 list is crazy. Severed heads and band member suicide pics as album covers = ballsy.

[BerenTebogo]

I have child porn.

[Kuya]

I have child porn.

Like you need another reason to get banned from somewhere.

[Krye]

Apology not accepted.

[Tyche]

Oh god, I have like, enough CP on my PC to put me behind bars for 10 lifetimes. Plus, it's my daughter, is that considered incest?!? Oh no!!!! I posted a video of her farting in the bathtub on BG a few months ago. Your all going to prison!