Unless you believe that burning flags is "speech", or looting stores is "protesting", then exposing himself and masturbating for "her" via his webcam was not just "talking explicitly" with "her".
“Unless you believe that burning flags is “speech”, or looting stores is “protesting”, then exposing himself and masturbating for “her” via his webcam was not just “talking explicitly” with “her”.”
Burning flags is speech (the supreme’s have said it is so it must be true, right?) however, it is stupid beyond belief to burn the flag of your own country and I would probably not convict anyone that beat the @#$%% out of him/her. Looting is NOT a thought crime, you’re stealing and should go to jail for that.
Filming yourself jerking off is offensive, degrading and immoral and in a normal society you would be a social outcast for life. We no longer live in a normal society so shame is no longer an effective tool in keeping people from doing this. But middle aged perverts are not the only ones doing this, I can’t count the number of news stories I’ve seen of kids “sexting” their naked body parts to boyfriends and other friends. These are those oh so innocent 14/15/16 year olds that you seem to think need protection. Unfortunately they are active participants in this not some innocent bystander (I would support jailing some guy that did this on the street in front of unwilling participants, minors or adults by the way).
What happened was consensual, Ritter chatted up what he thought was some teenager and “she” participated and lead him on. He didn’t just use malware or a virus to suddenly pop up a window showing him doing this (which was quite common until anti-virus programs got better). So is this really worth 7 years in the pokey? Why when both parties were willing participants?