FBI trying to trap innocent web surfers
Here's a scary "trap" that FBI is doing: FBI posts fake hyperlinks to snare child porn suspects. (Hat tip: Digg).
It seems that they have a web site setup to capture people who links in, even by accident (an unknown URL sent to you via spam or friends who think it's funny). Then they raid your home and sign you up with child porn charge! What an easy way to make FBI look like "they are doing something" about child pornography, when in fact, all they do is trap mostly innocent people. And until the jury becomes wise to how silly FBI is (no probable cause, no motive and no real proof), many innocent computer users will go to jail or plead guilty to something they didn't do.
It's almost as bad as the age of consent laws used to put boyfriends on a sex offender list. Talk about trapping the innocents. I personally believe that sex before marriage is immoral but that doesn't mean it should be made illegal or, even worse, brand a person for life as a sex offender. (Biblical method is to force a marriage and keep the (virtual) gun to the head of the husband by the surrounding community -- if you have sex then you are forced to be married for life (more fair than being branded a sex offender and never be able to get most normal jobs).)
Copyright 2008, DannyHSDad, All Rights Reserved.
It seems that they have a web site setup to capture people who links in, even by accident (an unknown URL sent to you via spam or friends who think it's funny). Then they raid your home and sign you up with child porn charge! What an easy way to make FBI look like "they are doing something" about child pornography, when in fact, all they do is trap mostly innocent people. And until the jury becomes wise to how silly FBI is (no probable cause, no motive and no real proof), many innocent computer users will go to jail or plead guilty to something they didn't do.
It's almost as bad as the age of consent laws used to put boyfriends on a sex offender list. Talk about trapping the innocents. I personally believe that sex before marriage is immoral but that doesn't mean it should be made illegal or, even worse, brand a person for life as a sex offender. (Biblical method is to force a marriage and keep the (virtual) gun to the head of the husband by the surrounding community -- if you have sex then you are forced to be married for life (more fair than being branded a sex offender and never be able to get most normal jobs).)
Copyright 2008, DannyHSDad, All Rights Reserved.
Labels: internet sex "crimes"
posted by DannyHSDad at
1:18 AM
