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Originally Posted by Moogs
I understand the slippery slope you're all worried about, but the legal context is everything. If you base the ban on existing criminal statutues, it should prevent from sliding down that slope.
The big difference here is the criminal element. Homosexuality is not a crime in any free country that I'm aware of, nor is political dissent or religious dissent or whatever. Sexually abusing and using children is a crime in many, many places. If you make the ban contigent upon the criminal element, then the next hack politician would have to make whatever he didn't like a crime before he could say ban the related internet content. Much harder to do when there's no prior criminal precedent....
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well, monsieur, murder is a crime, far and wide. should the faces of death vids be blocked? what about fictionalized murder? a young actor who pretends to engage in a pretend sex act with a older actor for commercial purposes, would their video be illegal? what about stoner flicks, like the cheech and chong?