From: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 14:04:42 +0800
To: EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU (E. ALLEN SMITH)
Subject: Re: Yet another blame-the-Internet-for-child-porn
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Message-ID: <199608130140.LAA20673@suburbia.net>
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> 	They are, of course, failing to answer the question of why encouraging
> people to consume _computer-generated_ child pornography should be considered
> a justification for legal intervention, not to mention that such an effort
> would also make putting _Lolita_ on the Internet illegal (text could drive
> up demand for it as well, after all), or even political speech such as from
> NAMBLA. (It's political speech just as much as material from neo-Nazis... or
> from the Demopublicans.)

I don't see what the FBI is complaining about. Child pornography traded
on the net makes produces of child pornography incredibly easy to
locate. The child porn peddlers and consumers caught on the network are
usually soft, chewy and coperative, responding well to all manner of
threats and inducements. Further the piracy in child pornography tends
to create a buyers market, drives prices down substantially, reducing
the incentive to produce original material at all.

--
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely  exercised for the good of its victims  
 may be the most  oppressive.  It may be better to live under  robber barons  
 than  under  omnipotent  moral busybodies,  The robber baron's  cruelty may  
 sometimes sleep,  his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who  
 torment us for own good  will torment us  without end,  for they do so with 
 the approval of their own conscience."    -   C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_ 
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