Teens send nude pics to one other, face kiddie porn charges - Ars Technica - 1 views
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The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy on 16 Sep 09One of the three bookmarks on my profile which the Diigo system has repeatedly changed from public to private, against my wishes. See: http://groups.diigo.com/Diigo_HQ/forum/topic/censorship-on-diigo-this-would-be-a-problem-48649 -
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy on 16 Sep 09Comment: One of the three posts from my bookmark page that the Diigo system (or somebody at Diigo) keeps changing from public to private. See: http://groups.diigo.com/Diigo_HQ/forum/topic/censorship-on-diigo-this-would-be-a-problem-48649 As you can see, nothing in this post justified this sort of censorship. The post follows, verbatim: "Law that is good in principle, applied without the use of common sense or basic logic. One of the reasons why underaged teens aren't allowed to consent to model nude - without parental consent, and there are issues enough in that to justify a whole other post - is because children are believed to lack the mental capacity to fully understand the decisions that they are making. Yet now they are to prosecuted for making those very same decisions on their own, as if they were competent adults who had preyed on incompetent children, luring them into decisions their victims might later regret, leaving us with a pick and mix in which the teens are regarded as being both competent and incompetent at same time, the state they are to be viewed as being in depending on the needs of the argument under which they are to be imprisoned at each given point. Doublethink a la Orwell being used as a basis for Law, as the underaged are put in danger of sent to prison (where they are likely to be raped) using a law designed to protect them from a form of sexual exploitation."
