A public awareness campaign to educate our young people as to what constitutes child pornography must begin now.
The lives of too many young adults are being ruined due to ignorance about the dangers of clicking on ANY porn site.
Please consider taking time to watch this 3 min PSA:
When is an adult not an adult?
When a teen poses to look like an adult as part of the dark web of child pornography.
More and more children, teens and young adults are looking at internet pornography out of curiosity about sex. And that’s how illegal porn websites often catch their prey.
But what if the adult in the porn is actually under age and only posing as an adult? In the eyes of the law, the viewer is still liable. The wrong click can end the viewer’s freedom for life in California for BOTH juveniles and adults caught by law enforcement.
Once you are convicted of possession of child pornography, you are listed as a California sex offender for the rest of your life. The law doesn’t apply just to offenders caught in the physical act. It also includes those caught “just looking” at under-age porn in the privacy of their own home.
California Code PC 311 is the fastest growing sex offense snagging our young people. Many times, they aren’t even aware of the law until it’s too late.
- Over 400 men and women in California are convicted between the ages of 18 and 30 for PC 311 and are registered on Megan’s List.
- 33% are ages 21-30 and 50% are ages 30-39.
Please join us in the fight to prevent another lifetime sentence due to ignorance and innocence about the rapidly growing dangers of the dark web.
“The law doesn’t apply just to offenders caught in the physical act. It also includes those caught “just looking” at under-age porn in the privacy of their own home.”
And therein lies the problem with Megan’s Law. The original legislative intent was circumvented to include CP as a registerable offense. Possession was once only a misdemeanor, but that all changed with the “tough of crime” approach that lawmakers run their campaign platforms on.
Jesus christ these people are sexist. I mean look at what they’re telling these kids. “if you make pornography of yourself, you’ve broken the law too” You know what that means? If a man coerces a kid into making child pronography of themselves, the kid can’t tell anybody. It’s crazy. It’s just like our approach to prostitution. Prostitute’s raped, she can’t tell anyone about it.
Well rosebud you can disagree with it all you like but to prosecute a child for production of child pornography is absurd, and that’s exactly what this PSA is telling them.
I’ve been a hosting provider since 1999 and around 2001 I started an Internet Services Provider in my home town after having worked in others before. Almost immediately after my company went online, we received an in-person visit from a 3-letter agency trying to tell my partner (who has since passed away) that we had to install a piece of equipment to combat child pornography and terrorism activity. The only reason I can discuss it now is that I was not the one under the gag-order. Luckily at the time we were a virtual ISP, not a physical one. We resold connections we bought at wholesale, otherwise we would have been forced to install the equipment under a court order. We maintained no on-premise physical equipment other than an email and DNS server.
The system in question is Carnivore:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(software)
I empire everyone to be careful with VPN providers as I suspect most are setup for catching illegal activity. (How else did so many VPN’s pop-up out of nowhere in such a short time?). Most VPN providers are untraceable and are operated by shell companies that don’t really exist.
Also, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has a free tool called HTTPS Everywhere. Use it. If you operate a website in which users access data, ensure that you have an SSL installed and enforced for all traffic to prevent this kind of traffic sniffing.
If you must use a VPN, build your own with a cheap VPS account at Vultr, Linode or Digital Ocean. You can get a cheap VPN going for about $3.50/mo-$5.00/mo and you can route all your traffic through this.
Another major thing you should be doing also is changing your ISP’s DNS servers to something else like CloudFlare’s 1.1.1.1 and 1.1.0.0 or Google’s public DNS servers 8.8.8.8 and 4.4.4.4 in your computer’s settings or in your home or office routers. These providers will offer untainted DNS whereas ISP’s are notorious for getting hijacked.
There are other steps you can take, but i’m simply pointing out that this sniffing of traffic on the general public has been happening for a very long time.
Great video! It tells the true story even if some organizations don’t want society to know who is actually on our Registry.
LOL, this video. Showing the Police State at its finest. We only have voters to blame for allowing this to happen.
You don’t have TIME to be outraged when you’re working several jobs.. Or watching ESPN and Kardashians. It takes brain power to actually follow the injustices constantly happening in this country. Can’t do that when your life is just Work and Entertainment.
At what point will Lawmakers, and people of Authority in general, get it through their damn skulls that just because you WANT kids to not be sexual until 18, that doesn’t make Mother Nature give a D*mn. It doesn’t work that way! Have they ever stepped outside of their brainwashed close-minded bubble and asked themselves why menstruation starts at a young age? Is it just for the hell of it because Nature doesn’t know what the hell it is doing? Or how about those countries with much lower Ages of Consent? OR how about the Psychologists/Researchers that have gone on record to make it CRYSTAL CLEAR that people under age 18 still know what they are doing. People under 18 have brains that are fully capable of making decisions despite their hormones taking priority in decision making. Isn’t that an inconvenient truth that Americans don’t want to hear which the rest of the outside world is aware of?
We have made it through thousands of years without this being an issue. Now SUDDENLY in the last 20 years or so, we’re running out of Easy Crimes to Convict, yet we have a massive Law Enforcement presence. You have to keep those jobs going somehow, right?? So why not criminalize everything so you can forever keep Law Enforcement employed along with prisons/prosecutors/judges! BRILLIANT idea!
Evidently, the PSA was produced by ACSOL and thank you for that. The ultimate moral of the story seems to be, never view any porn because that is the only way to ensure safety.
CP is the most mysterious and therefore complex crime if you ask me, and nobody asked me. But there it is. The public never sees the evidence and so is never enlightened on what to avoid. This is especially troublesome because there are separate laws for viewing, downloading and distributing it. After viewing it a person might never know if in violation until it is too late and the charges are multiplied.
Is CP on the clear web or is it only on the dark web? The PSA seems to claim arrest is certain in either case. I would think any CP on the clear web would be reported almost instantly and therefore the various porn sites would be safe. Not true? Has anyone been convicted of CP when found accidentally on clear web porn sites, like for example pornhub.com? There are groups that police the dark web as well, so I would think unless specifically clicking on an obvious CP .onion site it would likely be monitored enough to be safe. Not true? Aren’t those sites the ones the FBI tracks and maybe controls?
Nobody wants to get charged with CP and it is difficult to see how taking that risk would be worth it, but adult porn sites get a lot of the highest traffic. Are there millions of sex criminals now? Seems to me self-censoring all porn is not the best and fairest solution. Is that really the only way to be safe? It is important because some studies found porn to be a crime prevention solution.
Nanny Big Government (NBG) ought to be legally required to run continous PSAs for any of their “laws” which are asinine. NBG truly is a danger to the citizens that pay them. Most of the “people” in it are scum bags who are drawn to corruption.
They should hand everyone a manual when they hit the age of 10.. “Congratulations your one foot closer to going to prison”, here are the list of don’ts not to do.. Hell I can for a manual right now “Congratulations, your register sex offender, here is the list of don’ts”.. I am still confused by the laws even now, it quickly changes within cities, countries, and states..
Let’s see here…what is, in fact, child pornography?
– teenagers and adolescents self-pleasuring on webcam, with or without accompaniment of other teenagers/adolescents (which is the majority of child pornography, I would think) – No victims
– teenagers and adolescents showing nude pictures of themselves and deciding to post it online – no victims
– teenagers and adolescents who agree to go on cam, recorded by a “predator”, knowing that it would be posted online – most likely no victims
– 10-year-olds and under’s being forced by threat to perform sex acts in front of the camera – almost always has victims
– Sex acts of minors recorded over a decade ago – a case-by-case analysis would determine whether or not there are victims; more likely than not, though… no victims
As you can see, the great majority of this list suggests no victims. I’m sure many to most would generally agree with me.
Having said that,
Are we merely satisfied with clipping 1 or 2 ugly, disgusting tentacles of the poisonous tarantula and calling it good job? Or, should we maybe SMACK and kill the Tarantula altogether, so that it doesn’t bite humanistically innocent and decent people, especially those with no prior criminal record?
Case in point: we need not merely “educate teens” on what child pornography is. We need to push forward to not allow California (or the USA altogether, for that matter) to tactlessly, blindly, wrecklessly and irresponsibility define Child porn as all-encompassingly dangerous, when it’s not.
PERIOD.