Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on Virtual Child Pornography
'"The sexual abuse of a child is a most serious crime and an act repugnant to the moral instincts of a decent people," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote in the majority decision. Nevertheless, he said, if the 1996 law were allowed to stand, the Constitution's First Amendment right to free speech would be "turned upside down. Congress may pass valid laws to protect children from abuse, and it has," Justice Kennedy wrote. "The prospect of crime, however, by itself does not justify laws suppressing protected speech."'
Although it is 'old news', this decision by the SCOTUS was pivotal and condoned the RIGHT of pedophiles to proliferate the internet with virtual child porn, which everybody knows is just one step from child porn made with real children.
Per Q, Anthony Kennedy was forced out of the SCOTUS, opening the door for another TRUMP appointment. This was a YUGE Swamp Takedown.
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notanexit ago
If they banned virtual child porn, could they use that as precedence to ban virtual murders?
MaxVieuxlieu ago
Violent video games are currently protected under this same precedent as free speech. If this case had gone the other way, the next challenge would have probably involved the original first-person shooters in some place that tried to ban them. Whether the Court would have extended the holding in this case to a violent video game is a different question, but it follows the same line of reasoning.
Oh_Well_ian ago
lol yeah... because child sex acts and first shooter games are exactly the same
Your comments on this thread are very suspect, buddy.
tadorno ago
It's called precedence. Any law against something that's "not real" could easily be used on anything else that's "not real".
Not only that, but virtual cp that depicts actual child abuse is illegal, given that it's sourced from real abuse. So it's not it's a free for all. It's the best we've got so far as a balance between protecting from abuse and locking down freedom. Which is what would happen with a poorly planned out law.
Oh_Well_ian ago
So, VIRTUAL CHILD PORN is an expression of FREEDOM that needs to be protected because muh… other freedoms?
tadorno ago
No, it's because if you give them an inch they'll take a fucking mile.
How many times have we had freedoms taken away from us because they screamed THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN.
Maybe we should just ban all computers too, that's where all the cp is stored
Oh_Well_ian ago
lol half of the Bill of Rights is GONE and it had NOTHING to do with arresting shitbags who produce and distribute child porn
Just what the fuck are you talking about?