quote: | Originally posted by EddieZilker
What do you want, then? There has always been youthful indiscretion. Teenagers are inherently stupid creatures. The internet, however, is relatively new. It adds a perpetual dimension to such indiscretion. Should the otherwise illegal consequences of mistakes made in adolescence be allowed to follow people, well into adulthood? Do revealing pictures made when she was a girl (and, let's face it, here - it's always a girl) mean she should be subject to stalking because a sociopath hacked her facebook account? Tough titties, bitch - you were an attention whore, ergo, we're not going to do anything about protecting you from the behavior of some fucking shitheads who have a fixation with you. |
Again, you fail to realize that any law that protects kids like this would ultimately target kids in the end?
If she is being stalked then there are already laws against that (she wasn't being stalked as far as I can tell from that article, just people knew who she was because there were pics of her on the internet) and people can be prosecuted. Are you saying that photos of people underage in bathing suits or underwear should be the same as pictures of child abuse? Remember that these kids usually end up taking the pictures themselves, out of their own volition. If they do that, would they be charged? It already happens when they take nude photos of themselves. A girl in Oklahoma I believe was charged with child-abuse and possession and distribution of child pornography after she sent nude photos of herself to a couple of older guys.
These are laws that are more akin to religiously intolerant and paranoid nations. The US's best thing going for it still is its almost incredibly anything goes free-speech laws. I don't see why people want to continue to hack away at even that.
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