Radio station spent two years advising listeners how to stash child porn

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13 points·shawndumas··5 comments

He didn't think this through. It won't be hard to search his hard drives and find some images in his browser cache that are both salacious and look underage. Especially if he's ever been to any porm site ever.

They may not be able to convict him, but they can make his life hell for a few years.

Well, it is one thing to make the statement that penalties for the possession of such material are unjust. There are several compelling arguments to make for that case.

On the other hand, it is deeply disturbing that this guy is publishing directions on how to securely store these materials in a way to evade law-enforcement in such a specific manner. I hope and suspect that there will be a thorough investigation of this guy's activities.

Separately, it is unbelievable that such a controversial and conspicuous PSA could go unnoticed for over two years! Wow.

If the penalties are unjust (and particularly if the penalization at all of mere possession of some or all of the materials in the class at issue is unjust), then advising people how to avoid those unjust penalties—which are an unmerited harm by definitoon—is not merely not “deeply disturbing”, but actually meritorious.

The issues cannot be separated. You can't say it's okay to argue that the penalties are unjust, but improper to help people avoid the penalties: if the penalties are unjust, it is at least good and perhaps even morally obligatory to take reasonable steps to help people avoid being on the recieving end of that injustice.

I'm not sure if I agree.

One can rationally argue that the death penalty for murderers is unjust, while at the same time maintaining that coaching people on how to murder without penalty is disturbing and wrong.

Paul Lotsof is right.

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