[dead]

You can't have the government telling you how you can arrange pixels in a picture. That's the bottom line.

It's a victory for the sickos and weirdos, but it's still the right decision, which is confusing.

[Lazamataz]

It's a victory for the sickos and weirdos, but it's still the right decision, which is confusing.

Yeah, I know. That's it in a nutshell. I can see the legal and practical reasons why this law was wrong, but on the other hand, I really wouldn't mind putting the screws to the pedophiles... so I have mixed feelings, big time.

[Lurking Libertarian]

It's a victory for the sickos and weirdos, but it's still the right decision, which is confusing.

There are plenty of behaviors which are immoral, depraved and disgusting, and which should lead any decent person to shun anyone who engages in them, but which nonetheless should not be punishable by the force of the law, because of the risk of giving the government too much power.

[in_troth]

You can't have the government telling you how you can arrange pixels in a picture. That's the bottom line. It's a victory for the sickos and weirdos, but it's still the right decision, which is confusing. yeah, but didn't they recently re-jail a pedophile who was out on parole, because they found that he had been drawing pics of child porn scenarios? seems to me this ruling might invalidate that arrest (cuz while it's probably not a bad idea to keep him locked up, it does have a creepy 'thought police' aspect to it.)