A depraved world: FBI agents wage a stressful battle against child pornography

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28. Looking at a picture of the act is worse than the act itself.

Child porn is the only crime where looking at a picture of a criminal act is considered more severe than the crime itself. Someone who has "child porn"on their computer will likely spend more time in prison than someone who actually molested a a real child. Even if you download a file that you discover is something horrible and you delete it, that is no defense. In fact, deleting the file will get you an "upward departure" meaning your sentence will be increased because you used your "computer skills" to destroy evidence.

This child porn hysteria is just that, hysteria. It is the updated version of the "ritual satanic abuse" hoax of a couple decades ago. The FBI is not the least bit interested in "the children" since they never actually take down a distribution site or go after the Catholic Church.

Since the drug war is beginning to wind down, the feds need a good source of bodies to keep the for-profit prisons full. and what better group than those who can be branded with a "sex offender" label. They get even less quarter than the "druggies", and the raids, busts, surveillance, property seizures, and Internet monitoring can continue unabated.

Make no mistake, the primary goal here is not protecting children, it is and has always been to put as many people in prison as possible.

Just an example how deep this stupidity goes, it is now a law in California that any IT worker can be held criminally liable for child porn on any system they touch even if they did not know it was there.