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Originally Posted by roddy
So you're saying it's okay to talk in a sexual nature to a 10 year old, because it's just talking on a computer and you think that doesn't damage children? Do you think looking at child porn is okay and doesn't harm anyone?
Am I talking to a 10 year old right now?
I just assume I'm not. But I don't know, do I?
Well little Timmy (or whatever the case may be), when you grow up you might learn that "this is not okay" does not equate to "it's a good idea to send people to prison for multiple years for this".
Or, as I'm assuming, you already grew up, and you didn't learn that. And you're not alone in this thread.
If you're really genuinely baffled about how it's possible to think it's not okay and yet not want people going to prison for it, check the wikipedia article for free speech or something.
In my case, all I said was I'm damn lucky these laws didn't exist when I was a kid. Right out of elementary school I ran a somewhat popular and extremely laissez-faire dialup BBS in the years before the web took off, and I'm sure there's no end to what some hand-wringing individual who wanted to protect the world from dangerous pixels would have been able to do about it if they had had the means to--which they probably would nowadays.