{"id":37939,"date":"2013-06-29T00:46:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T06:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/29\/bad-choices-but-really-bad-law.html"},"modified":"2013-06-30T17:08:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T23:08:13","slug":"bad-choices-but-really-bad-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/29\/bad-choices-but-really-bad-law.html","title":{"rendered":"Bad choices but really bad law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">I find child pornography repugnant both on the face of it and as exploitation of non-consenting minors. I would gleefully see the stereotypical child pornographer locked away in prison for an exceedingly long time.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a case of that. While I&#39;m not endorsing the fellow in question&#39;s judgment on an array of issues, this was <i>not<\/i> something that should have been prosecuted as a federal child porn case. \u00a0<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/q8AtYvvRpbZA8Gi8r35kzH_xHyurukka6_g5_GJLXhuCiN1WOKwgEFJMxHLphP9nLBADWI6Tbz0DJcMknJ6sFBOcqRT1kYYzOW947SXlHcfkDF3e9iQt_BFzdrWO4NcDMQ=w125-h125' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/06\/legal-sex-smartphone-video-child-pornography\/'>Legal sex + smartphone video = child pornography<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Young man with 16 year old girlfriend now sex offender for life.\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/3bCzen5ebhu' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find child pornography repugnant both on the face of it and as exploitation of non-consenting minors. I would gleefully see the stereotypical child pornographer locked away in prison for an exceedingly long time. This is not a case of that. While I&#39;m not endorsing the fellow in question&#39;s judgment on an array of issues, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/29\/bad-choices-but-really-bad-law.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bad choices but really bad law&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-politics-law","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30833,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/because-joe-miklosi-hates-children-especially-yours.html","url_meta":{"origin":37939,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Because Joe Miklosi HATES CHILDREN &#8230; especially YOURS!&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 24-Oct-12 6:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Um ... not really. 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