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Originally Posted by CDSmith
Correct, but too simplistic a view to be any kind of solution in this case. Your comment doesn't take into account all those (now thrice-mentioned) who unintentionally come to have evidence of it on their hard drives.
If someone's purchasing it and downloading it, possessing and possibly redistributing it then that's a different matter, and your view applies fully in that sense.
jimmystephans outlined it correctly. Make laws that punish only those who deserve it.
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I certainly have sympathy for those who unintentionally view it, though I suspect few of those are prosecuted, and for those cases close to the line that may be legal in some other countries, but are branded as pedophiles. Obviously mistaken prosecutions based on Amai Lui type content are another matter as well.
That said, looking at how to stop it, my understanding is that the most successful efforts have been starting with those who download it, trade it, participate in forums dedicated to it, or buy it. By putting legal pressure on those buying it and trading it, they have in the best cases been able to track it back to the distributors and "producers" (child molestors). So the most effective way to get to the molestors seems to be starting with the "low guy on the totem pole" and interrogating him to find out where he gets it, how, who he pays, if anyone, etc. I don't mind if the police put that guy through some grief in order to investigate a build a case against serial molesters.