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Comment by dstein | Hacker News Reader

  In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only
  crime is getting caught.
    — Hunter S. Thompson

This is a good quote generally, but not when discussing child porn and the sexual exploitation of children. In this context, everybody is not guilty.

Well the quote relates more to the whole spying on your every online activity. There's a lot more to this than catching child pornographers.

The quote is still good, I think your interpretation given the context is flawed.

We might all be guilty of something as defined through law, however that doesn't mean you are not innocent ethically speaking.