Express Observation (Self-made Teen Porn Arrests)
Teens willingly producing their own porn charged 4 violating laws aimed at protecting chldren exploited by others Link
Express Observation (MySpace’s Pedophile Playground)
MySpace releases 90k names of registered sex offenders banned from site, Harvard still claims there's no problem Link
Express Observation (Berkman Cyber-Whitewash)
More on the cyber-whitewash re: online predators from the WashPost @ Link
Express Observation (Judge Disbarred for Child Porn)
Disbarment Urged for NJ Judge Convicted of Child Porn and Sex Trafficking Link
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Cyber Conflict of Interest – Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center Calls Online Threats to Children Overblown
At first glance, the news in today's New York Times that "the Internet may not be such a dangerous place for children after all" will give many a sense of relief. Look closer, however, and you'll quickly discover that cyber-industry heavyweights have co-opted the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. By selling itself to the industry it is allegedly investigating, the Berkman Center has become both a shrill and a shield for the powerful well-funded online establishment.
First the "news." According to the NYT:
A task force created by 49 state ...
Kids Producing and Distributing their own Child Porn
Children producing and distributing their own child pornography has long been a dream of child porn devotees and a nightmare for parents and law enforcement. Not surprisingly, digital technology combined with ease of distribution through social networks and e-mail has made this theoretical threat to children a sad reality.
This disturbing trend, most recently profiled at Wired, raises some thorny legal issues. As anyone who has followed this blog knows, I am no fan of child pornography or child exploitation, even calling for the execution of those found guilty of child ...
Child Rape Death Penalty Case Dies
I know that I am once again courting controversy on this topic, but here it goes anyway.
Last week the Supreme Court declined to reconsider its controversial June ruling in Kennedy v. Louisiana which sounded the death knell for the death penalty for child rape.
As you might recall, the Court based much of its reasoning on the emerging "national consensus" that the death penalty for rape is wrong. What no one seemed to realize at the time, however, was that Congress passed a law in 2006 specifically allowing the death penalty for child rapists under military law. Once ...