If you download a file and open it, and find child porn it’s what you do next that determines if you become a criminal. If you immediately alert the authorities, you will not be convicted by a jury. They can threaten you all they want, but you still get judged by your peers and you won’t get 12 people retarded enough to convict you for doing the right thing. I would advise also handing it over to a trusted media source so it doesn’t get suppressed. Don’t blast it all over the world, let a media source censor it and release what is possible just to be newsworthy. There are protections for this. If it wasn’t the case, a pedophile could get anyone arrested just by mailing them a video and calling the cops. It doesn’t work that way.
To use your drugs analogy, if parents confiscate drugs from their child and call the police to come take them, the parents don’t get arrested just for finding them.
If you download a file and open it, and find child porn it’s what you do next that determines if you become a criminal. If you immediately alert the authorities, you will not be convicted by a jury. They can threaten you all they want, but you still get judged by your peers and you won’t get 12 people retarded enough to convict you for doing the right thing. I would advise also handing it over to a trusted media source so it doesn’t get suppressed. Don’t blast it all over the world, let a media source censor it and release what is possible just to be newsworthy. There are protections for this. If it wasn’t the case, a pedophile could get anyone arrested just by mailing them a video and calling the cops. It doesn’t work that way.
To use your drugs analogy, if parents confiscate drugs from their child and call the police to come take them, the parents don’t get arrested just for finding them.