Gay Marriage Ban in North Carolinaaa

I would agree with that on face value. But the very existence of child porn means that some child has been exploited, traumatized and perhaps injured. Removing the market for child porn by holding possessors of it accountable can only reduce child exploitation. We must be pragmatic and realize that complete freedom requires us also to be responsible and self-regulating and to restrict "freedoms" that cause undue harm to others.

 

This is where I think that judges need to get involved to make judgements based on individual circumstances. If a fellow has 1,000's of illegal porn images on his machine and has shared them with other perps, then he should be prosecuted as a sex criminal. If a fellow has 1,000's of child porn cache images on his computer, then he is likely visiting child porn sites and should probably be prosecuted depending on the circumstances.

But . . . if a fellow has just a few odd images over large amounts of time, it could be completely innocent. I have received vile porn in unsolicited emails that got through my filters, even one that got to my office computer through LSU's very sophisticated filters. Who knows what could be sitting in my junk mail folders that I almost never check on and delete about twice a year. I have also been surfing for information and encountered a possibly illegal porn site that I did not linger on, but I suppose it got saved in my cache. I worry about the 20 or so lab computers that I am responsible for. They are use by multiple people including students and grad students and many are in labs that are unlocked during the day. We have passwords and policies. But I have still walked in and found machines in empty labs logged in and available for use. I have also caught janitors at night surfing on lab computers that someone failed to log-out from properly.

This business must be taken seriously, but a zero-tolerance policy is a bad idea. Let the judges do their jobs and consider all of the circumstances.

 

Here's my views on the gay marriage issue in a nutshell: Federal gov't: stay the eff out of it. States: it's up to you Citizens: don't like the gay marriage law in your state? Move to a State that has laws that you agree with. There are 50 states, so I'm sure there is one that's right for you.