venomhed wrote on Jan 30, 2012, 14:32:
Very good point and I should have been more specific, which I will now even though I think that nothing could still be done as you state.
There has been in the past to create a .xxx domain extension and to force register domains that contain porn pics etc to use this rather than .com. So say sex.com would instantly own sex.xxx and sex.com would push to sex.xxx
This would have allowed and been one of several steps into helping curb at least regular pornography. But as you pointed out, it may all be futile for places such as 4chan or newsgroups which really are the start of all this anyways or where it is legal in one area but not here etc.
The idea that the gov won't even try at any level just seems odd to me? Most likely due to no return on investment $$$
I dunno, the state is insane about child porn. People think what happened to megaupload is scary? Child porn is probably the harshest, where the least needs to be proved and the punishments are harshest.
Rightfully so in most cases, but you see many times that this goes wrong, far more than in other areas of law. There's reason for it, but the internet makes it stickier. This stuff is legal some places, and every 16 year old girl with a cell phone has sent pictures she shouldn't have. Of course, this is why police really concentrate on below 13 or 14, too.
When I think about it, there are so many ridiculous cases (like the not-uncommon-enough case of an 18 year old high school senior and his also-high school girlfriend), but I saw so many disgusting things in the year I spent doing criminal law. Like, scum of the Earth gross things. Please-let-me-punch-that-guy-in-the-face gross.