Comments on: Gullible Kiddy Porn Fan Busted

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:43:01 +0000

Tosha,

I’m not blaming the girls when I say they are willing to have sex with older males. If you doubt that young teen girls are willing and eager to engage in consensual sex with older guys, I suggest you visit some of the popular social-networking sites and see what these girls are posting.

I simply disagree with the notion that consensual sex between teenage girls and adult males, or teenage boys and adult females should be treated as a crime.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:04:54 +0000

They are not catching high school age kids sleeping with other high school age kids–that is legal (I think many states have an age range in which dating is acceptable). So no…we are not supporting that.

But I hate to think that any normal person would allow an older man to molest (because that IS what it is) a young kid. On “To Catch a Predator” the decoys pose as kids that are usually about 11-14 and catch older, around middle age, men. Read up on what the policies are, who they are catching and why.

By: tosha

tosha — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:49:03 +0000

Quote from Kathy: “Iâ€™m shocked at how many of you support throwing guys into prison for attempting to have sex with a willing minor. Are you really okay with an 18 year-old male being sent to prison for having consensual sex with a 17 year-old female? Thatâ€™s an example of what this policy is doing.”

Kathy–
I would hate to be your daughter.
willing minor?–are you serious?
How DARE you blame the minor!
When I watch “To Catch a Predator”, I see 40 year olds trying to pursue 13 and 14 year olds–not 18 year old boys and 17 year old decoys…I’m guessing that was just your way of trying to validate your argument…

By: Kathy

Kathy — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:06:43 +0000

I’m shocked at how many of you support throwing guys into prison for attempting to have sex with a willing minor. Are you really okay with an 18 year-old male being sent to prison for having consensual sex with a 17 year-old female? That’s an example of what this policy is doing.

By: RandomChick

RandomChick — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:18:16 +0000

Again. SHOULD. My problem was not saying if something is or is not happening, it was not liking the very idea of such things happening.

I am fully aware of how our civil liberties when it comes to private communication are being trampled. And I hate it. My IMs and emails SHOULD be private and I disagree with anyone who claims catching criminals is a valid reason to search everyone’s communications.

By: Chris Finch

Chris Finch — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:42:34 +0000

Sorry for the misquote of Kathy, my bad.

By: Chris Finch

Chris Finch — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:41:50 +0000

IM’s and emails are far from private. They are private if you use encryption but even then, just the very fact you have used encryption makes interception computers react.

If you are using encryption, you have something to hide.

If you don’t they can read the plain text.

In fact, one could argue that nothing electronic is private at all.

By: RandomChick

RandomChick — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:28:50 +0000

Hey Chris, I said that, not Kathy. I should have been clearer. I’m not saying things like that are or are not happening, it was simply my opposition to such things. I hate the idea of generalized dragnets to catch criminals. I wouldn’t allow someone to go through my home just to check I was doing things legally, same should go with my IMs (if chatroom sites wanna moderate, great, but IMs and emails etc are private).

Sorry for the confusion

By: Husk

Husk — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:42:35 +0000

With two such diametrically opposed standpoints here, I’m actually yet undecided.

The whole question of ” Entrapment ” is something I only ever really heard about from ” Hill St. Blues “. Isn’t the fly response just to ask, ” Are you a Police Officer? ” ~ end of.

Sorry, I’m not that up on US ways.

Maybe they really Were one jump ahead in using ‘old fashioned paper and stamp mail’? If it’s getting so ye can’t mention ” Young ” in an on line key tapped sentence, without having some Orwellian presence pour over what ye said ~ and we’re now being, good as, assured of this on a site such as this?

How long before They figure out that no such resource will ever be expended on steaming open envelopes as is now on ’super computers’? And revert to ‘obsolete’ methods of communication.

Guy carrying a teddy bear in a forked stick would, seemingly, draw less flack that typing ” Kiddie “, these days.

By: Chris Finch

Chris Finch — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:38:08 +0000

Quote from Kathy: “Oh, and the idea of living in a society where anything I say online or elsewhere can be monitored makes me sick. We can find these people without doing a dragnet of the entire population! Besides, words like â€œkiddyâ€ and â€œpreteenâ€ are used very often without sexual implications.”

Here’s a reality check: we are already in that society. The NSA, along with partners in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand capture every electronic communication radiated worldwide, in a “vacuum cleaner” fashion, and then feed that data into massive supercomputers to decide what is junk and what is important.

Text Recognition, Phrase Recognition, Pattern Recognition, Voice Recognition, Image Recognition, Encryption Detection are all on 24 hours a day.

If you youtube “NSA” or “Echelon” you can watch 3-4 documentaries on this topic.