I am certainly not endorsing child porn or any other illegal activity, but there is no proof WHO actually clicked on the site. Like the article says, if you have an open WIFI connection, it could be a neighbor, someone parked near your house, or anyone.
What if your teenage daughter brings her boyfriend over to your house while you are out and HE uses your computer to access these sites? What if your 10 year old son who doesn’t know better access these sites? If you have a “family computer” in the den everyone in the house uses, who do they arrest? Everyone in the house, or do they just assume the adult male in the house is the guilty party?
What if you lend your laptop to someone? What if you use your personal laptop at work and a co-worker uses it during your lunch break to cruise kiddie porn? What about your work comuter? You really have no control over who uses it or doesn’t when your are not directly sitting in front of it.
Then there is the problem with sophisticated “hacker” types who could hijack and use your IP address (or whatever other identifying data is necessary). Someone in India could
steel your identity and are cruise these illegal sites under your name.
Try “PROVING YOUR INNOCENCE” in a court of law if the government doesn’t have to actually prove that YOU are guilty.
I think that the government should have to prove that a person committed a crime, not just show evidence that a machine was used (by someone) to do it.
Make noooo mistake, this is not about child porn at all. Child porn accusation is simply the vehicle to get into your place and your neighbors.