I don't agree with DOWNLOADING FOR FREE OFF THE INTERNET as something that should be a crime. I don't care what it is. If you "participate" in illegal activities, ie: paying or distributing things that are illegal, etc then that's different of course.
These FED clowns have made simple possession of anything THEY DEEM ILLEGAL from the internet onto your computer a crime in itself. No, it's not. This is more power grab by the FEDs.
I've already stated this a while back in detail. If someone is posting illegal stuff on the internet then you go after the posters..NOT the free downloaders.
If some nutjob posts child porn on Twitter and 100,000 people download it before it's removed, are 100,000 people now pedophiles? Should the FBI bust down the doors of 100,000 homes, confiscate all their computers and throw all of them in prison? Absolutely ludicrous. This FED overreach has got to stop.
Almost everyone involved in the supply/demand chain of illicit content or contraband do so willingly. Dealers and distributors would not be in "business" were it not for the demand from the customers. The couriers, sellers and middlemen would not exist were it not for the demand from the customers.
There comes a point on physical scene where the suspect should or ought to know the content or contraband they are in possession of is illegal and the mere possession of it furthers the criminal cycle of distribution.
Fentanyl and controlled substances are a perfect example. Dealing in stolen property also is a good example. Distribution of child pornography is ABSOLUTELY in the same category. The basics of supply and demand are met and all involved from the photographer/videographer to the "customer" are all suspects involved in a crime.
Imagine seeing the face of the child who was exploited, face to face, and you tell them "hey I don't think possessing pictures of you being abused and exploited should be illegal." NO ONE would EVER say OR think this if they had to physically interact with the victim on scene. I'm not saying you're a terrible person for defending your position, but I would say the consequence is a terrible one.
Downloading ANYTHING for free off the internet is not in any supply/demand chain. If some company wants to pay for "clicks" on pedo sites..who's actually the criminal here? The company paying for the clicks.. and obviously the pedos producing the material...it's NOT anyone else who happens to have free access to the internet.
Like I said before..I'm completely against child exploitation of any kind.
I'm saying these FED clowns shouldn't know or care what you freely download.
Your Fentanyl example is completely wrong. You're PAYING for Fentanyl. It's not even remotely the same.
I bet you're the kind of person who would make it a crime for me to download FREELY off the net plans for a 3D printed gun. You'd want to put me in prison, huh?
See, that's the difference between you and me. I like to follow the constitution and be deemed innocent until PROVEN guilty of a crime. But only for a crime I COMMITTED AND CAUSED HARM TO SOMEONE.
I don't agree with DOWNLOADING FOR FREE OFF THE INTERNET as something that should be a crime. I don't care what it is. If you "participate" in illegal activities, ie: paying or distributing things that are illegal, etc then that's different of course.
These FED clowns have made simple possession of anything THEY DEEM ILLEGAL from the internet onto your computer a crime in itself. No, it's not. This is more power grab by the FEDs.
I've already stated this a while back in detail. If someone is posting illegal stuff on the internet then you go after the posters..NOT the free downloaders.
If some nutjob posts child porn on Twitter and 100,000 people download it before it's removed, are 100,000 people now pedophiles? Should the FBI bust down the doors of 100,000 homes, confiscate all their computers and throw all of them in prison? Absolutely ludicrous. This FED overreach has got to stop.
ok, bring on the hate comments.
Almost everyone involved in the supply/demand chain of illicit content or contraband do so willingly. Dealers and distributors would not be in "business" were it not for the demand from the customers. The couriers, sellers and middlemen would not exist were it not for the demand from the customers.
There comes a point on physical scene where the suspect should or ought to know the content or contraband they are in possession of is illegal and the mere possession of it furthers the criminal cycle of distribution.
Fentanyl and controlled substances are a perfect example. Dealing in stolen property also is a good example. Distribution of child pornography is ABSOLUTELY in the same category. The basics of supply and demand are met and all involved from the photographer/videographer to the "customer" are all suspects involved in a crime.
Imagine seeing the face of the child who was exploited, face to face, and you tell them "hey I don't think possessing pictures of you being abused and exploited should be illegal." NO ONE would EVER say OR think this if they had to physically interact with the victim on scene. I'm not saying you're a terrible person for defending your position, but I would say the consequence is a terrible one.
Downloading ANYTHING for free off the internet is not in any supply/demand chain. If some company wants to pay for "clicks" on pedo sites..who's actually the criminal here? The company paying for the clicks.. and obviously the pedos producing the material...it's NOT anyone else who happens to have free access to the internet.
Like I said before..I'm completely against child exploitation of any kind.
I'm saying these FED clowns shouldn't know or care what you freely download.
Your Fentanyl example is completely wrong. You're PAYING for Fentanyl. It's not even remotely the same.
I bet you're the kind of person who would make it a crime for me to download FREELY off the net plans for a 3D printed gun. You'd want to put me in prison, huh?
See, that's the difference between you and me. I like to follow the constitution and be deemed innocent until PROVEN guilty of a crime. But only for a crime I COMMITTED AND CAUSED HARM TO SOMEONE.