Slog - Comments on Rights and Wrongs http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/rights_and_wron A 24-year-old computer repair technician at Quid•nunc—the bustling computer store on California Ave. SW at Alaska Junction—is used to seeing porn pop up on people's computers. "Everything from beaver shots to weirder stuff like Japanese animation featuring tentacles and slime," he says. But the file he saw last month freaked him out. It was titled "5-year-old Girl" and it was a picture of a grown man having sex with a little girl. There were several other j-peg files with similar titles, he says. It's against the law not to report child porn, so he called the police. (An account of... Copyright 2007 Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:25:54 -0800 Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:48:58 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Glenn Fleishman "I do not want to be concerned with about some misguided do-gooder taking my private information and reporting it to ‘big brother’.": There's another option. Posse comitatus! That way, it stays a private matter in which the person possessing child pornography is dealt with informally by a group of concerned citizens. Probably not the right course of action.

One of the many things I like about Savage Love is the fact that Dan has a strong line of unacceptable sexual/physical behavior which he writes about. There is a huge spectrum of participatory, consensual interaction that may or may not be sexual. Dan draws that line.

The anonymous notewriter to Quid*nunc obviously thinks that a 7-year-old can decide for themselves what sexual behavior to engage in and thus a fellow human being who becomes aware of the existence of documentation of said act should mind their own business.

]]> Glenn Fleishman http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/rights_and_wron#c035378 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/rights_and_wron#c035378 Politics Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:39:48 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi A guy who hands his computer over to someone else has no expectation of privacy.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/rights_and_wron#c036862 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/rights_and_wron#c036862 Politics Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:48:58 -0800