Pirate Party leader in kiddie porn storm
p2pnet view P2P:- Sweden’s Pirate Party has found itself the centre of a gathering storm over kiddie porn cartoons following remarks made by its leader, Rick Falkvinge (right).
Child pornography should be allowed in cartoons, he says, according to The Local.
“The law should focus on ‘real criminals’ abusing children”, he’s quoted as saying, But “We want to be extremely clear in that we do not want to legalize any form of the handling of child pornography”.
He expressed “regret over comments made in an interview with Sveriges Radio’s Ekot news programme yesterday admitting he “expressed himself clumsily”, says the story.
The debate arose “when a man was convicted for the possession of animated comics,” Falkvinge says in The Local, going on, “In an open society you can not forbid someone from drawing their fantasies. That is our main point in the issue, that we can not have thought crimes in Swedish law.”
The Pirate Party has been roundly criticised for its manifesto position for Falkvinge’s comments, says the post, continuing >>>
But in an opinion article in the Dagens Nyheter daily on Thursday, law professor Madeleine Leijonhuvud gave qualified support to the idea:
“The Pirate Party’s demand that comic books should not be child pornography crimes is one that I share – albeit with a completely different underlying outlook than that I have met in discussions with its representatives,” said Leijonhuvud, who took part in the consultation process surrounding the 1999 law.
Leijonhuvud argues that child pornography legislation should be framed along the lines of the crime of receiving stolen goods, “an offence framed in its the context of its subsequent participation”.
“The only reasonable course of action is to regard pictures of the assault on children as a further crime against the affected child,” she said explaining that the 1999 legislation, which was amended as late as 2009, classifies the crime instead as a public order offence.
Meanwhile, Pirate Party vice-chair Anna Troberg says “The current law is wasting resources chasing pretend criminals and should be focusing on real child pornography, with real children involved, not manga comics, holiday pictures and so on.”
Troberg “recognized that modern technology allows for the manipulation of pictures and that even cartoon animations could depict real life situations and children, but argues that the police have the technology to establish the difference”, says The Local, adding .
” ‘The problem is that they focus on the pictures and not the victims and waste masses of resources,’ she states. ‘We in fact want to go further to tackle the spread of child pornography and propose the closure of offending websites with the help of economic crime legislation’.”
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The Local – Pirate Party: Cartoons are not child porn, August 25, 2010
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August 5th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Now the corporations of parasites started an information war against the pirate party!
This mean that the problems of the entertainment parasites and criminals are obviously growing. Now they are facing a party.
Tomorrow they will face an army then a revolutionary tribunal and then hopefully prison!
August 5th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
porn in manga can get you arrested now?
manga = japanese comic book with pictures drawn
LAWL :LOL:
Get real, stop wasting tax money on crap and do your job by getting some REAL pedophiles.
Morons.
August 5th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
I’m not all that surprised that the collective corporate media has played the ‘Kiddie Porn’ card.
I AM surprised that haven’t played it against them sooner.
It’s a show of desperation.
August 5th, 2010 at 11:27 pm
What’s next, are they going to start arresting anime nerds for watching Sailor Moon? I agree with the Pirate Party, focus on the real pervs, like the “stars” of the catch a predator show.
August 9th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
most of the politicians are pedofiles search “most politicians are pedofiles” on google or scroogle.org for more privacy when searching
August 11th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Also Search most music and movie executive are pedophile on Google and see how many name of these parasites show-up.
Also try Pedophiles at the RIAA, pedophiles at the MPAA pedophiles at Vivendi Universal Pedophiles at EMI, Pedophiles at BPI, Pedophiles at the SACEM, pedophiles at the IFPI, pedophiles at the CRIA,. . . .