🚀 go-pugleaf

Someone told me that my original posting had made it here.  If any of you
want to read about the actual bust, go see my posting on comp.org.eff.talk,
where I typed in the text of the original Plain Dealer article.  I also
have spoken with the sysop who got busted, and he tells me that he
inadvertently put sexualy explicit gif and other files in an
**unrestricted** area of his bulletin board ... oops.  As for my opinion
that his being busted sucks, my opinion stands.  Regardless of whether you
think it is right for a 15 year old to be able to get this kind of stuff on
a computer, this bust sucks for two reasons:

1. the government probably violated its own laws on interception of
electronic transmissions.  Not too cool to break the law in order to arrest
someone for breaking the law.

2. the fifteen year old in question must have had his parent's permission
to work with the cops ... therefore, he wasn't seeing anything he wasn't
"allowed" to see by those responsible for him.  So who got hurt?

3. the first two reasons are "legal" reasons.  the third reason is my
personal belief that "porn" is not harmful to any 15 year old, or anyone
else.  I'd bet that almost **every** reader of this message saw some form
of pornography before they were 18.  Are you all rapists and murderers, or
otherwise "damaged?"  The only thing that you probably felt "wrong" about
when viewing "porn" at a young age (or now) was that you weren't "allowed."
You're not allowed to engage in sex before marriage or engage in oral sex
at **any** time, even with your spouse, either.  All you readers still on
the right side of the law?  This bust was based on an arbitrary standard,
which is not proven to be wise or beneficial.  If anything, the opposite.

I don't monitor this group, so flame me via e-mail, if you must.
David
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