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No, but a possession of any kind of media should not be a crime by itself. Nobody is harmed by a video/picture sitting on your hard drive. If you say that it might encourage anyone to do anything - then why is it perfectly legal to have videos of murders and gore?

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Right, you may not even know that you have such media sitting in your browser's cache. All it takes is clicking on some link in a spam message, for example. Even if you immediately close it, the damage is done and you don't even know it.

This. Punish those who cause harm.

Possessing a certain sequence of 0s and 1s does not cause harm.

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