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Originally posted by Validus
WHO CARES..... lets get this site shut down... thats all I want. I called the host and they just hung up on me.
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Well I care, for one. You're probably going to get it up the tailpipe from all the people who have told board member OVER AND OVER AND OVER that if you think something is CP, DON'T POST A LINK. Instead, report it.
Why is this so important? Well, for one thing, CP, under US law, is called a "strict liability offense." What does this mean? It means that having possession of it (which includes visited links, whatever is in your cache, deleted files, etc.) is a felony and that there is no defense of "I didn't know it was there" or "I got it by mistake."
Now do you understand why we don't want to visit a link to see if it might be CP?
(And my own additional advice is that if you report it, do it using an anonymizer. Otherwise, you may find that your own computer is being confiscated as evidence and you might have to provide age information for any and every image they can find on your hard drive. If that doesn't sound like fun, be smart when you report it. I know a lot of people will say that if you report it to ASACP they will maintain your anonymity, but no one has ever explained to me why it would be impossible for a judge to issue a search warrant for their computer and their report records.)
Also, let me point out that a girl doesn't look like a specific age; she looks like a range of ages. ("She could be 16, she could be 19"). I work with a lot of 18 and 19 year olds. Naturally, I verify their ages and keep records. CP is a very serious charge, and the consequences can be dire even for someone who it turns out was within the law. So, let's be a little less hysterical next time.
The following girl is 22, but I know a lot of people would wonder if she's even old enough to pose from this shot. If you saw her in another photo, she'd look older:
This girl is 25, even though in my recent content contest, it seemed like most of the guesses placed her at 18 or 19 (a 6 or 7 year discrepancy):
The point: It's not cool to raise this issue lightly, and it's even less so to post a link of possible CP and ask others to take a look at it.