Bag's Rants

Let's make you look bad unless you do what we want.

Read this about a proposal for ISPs to state on their website if they block access to Child Porn sites.

Child Porn, a hobby that seems to have more supporters in all walks of live than fox hunting and the Opera. Yet, like drugs it seems to be illegal with an uncountable number of followers prepared to break the law to meet their needs. Plus, of course, those who fall foul of the law through stupidity such as photographing their own children in swimming pools. Some people! Don't they know there are perverts out there. Oh, of course they do, they are one now and are on a list to prove it.

Child Porn is one of those things we appear to be in two minds about. We think it is immoral to do anything to children but at the same time we are happy to let them starve by the thousands, be maimed to earn enough to live or fight in wars. I, however, think that if enough people want it in a democracy should it not be legal? My vote is no, but it appears that there are quite a few out there who would vote for it. Luckily, we don't live in a democracy. The will of the people is irrelevant.

Now forgive me for being stupid but I thought it was pointless trying to monitor Child Porn sites. They move around all over the place. Having someone advertise on their website is another way to force them to waste resources on a PR exercise. They seem to think that, like the Government, they can just hire extra people to perform this task, no matter how ineffectual it is. Cost doesn't enter into it.

However, I loved the bit where it says 'Most illegal child porn sites are monitored by police'. That must be to frighten people off. If not, then why don't they just visit everyone who has been on the site. Raid them the next day. It can't be too sophisticated. They don't need weeks of planning just someone going round, arresting them and looking on their computer. Instead, let's give them time to move them to a secure location, encrypt them and distribute them amongst their network of like minded people.

posted by Bag @ 9:21 am