I am not sure Aaron Swartz was onto pedogate before we were. I thought it was a coincidence that George Webb mentioned him, and then this post, but in his own words:
"In the US, it is illegal to possess or distribute child pornography, apparently because doing so will encourage people to sexually abuse children.
This is absurd logic. Child pornography is not necessarily abuse. Even if it was, preventing the distribution or posession of the evidence won't make the abuse go away. We don't arrest everyone with videotapes of murders, or make it illegal for TV stations to show people being killed."
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Browns1 ago
I am not sure Aaron Swartz was onto pedogate before we were. I thought it was a coincidence that George Webb mentioned him, and then this post, but in his own words: "In the US, it is illegal to possess or distribute child pornography, apparently because doing so will encourage people to sexually abuse children. This is absurd logic. Child pornography is not necessarily abuse. Even if it was, preventing the distribution or posession of the evidence won't make the abuse go away. We don't arrest everyone with videotapes of murders, or make it illegal for TV stations to show people being killed."
http://web.archive.org/web/20031229025933/http:/bits.are.notabug.com/
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/02/aaron_swartz_he_wanted_to_save_the_world_why_couldn_t_he_save_himself.html