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Tories Target Child Porn With New Bill

Link: http://www.lfpress.com/news/canada/2009/11/24/11906756-sun.html

So here's the talking point that smooths this over and gives everyone that feel good feeling:

"The federal government is cracking down on online child pornography with new legislation that imposes stiff fines or jail time for internet service providers that fail to report illicit material involving minors."

From experience, I can say that this is a waste of time, and an insult to anyone even remotely close to this. When I was working at XTube I ran into more child porn than I care to remember, and I certainly did not just sit on it and hope nothing would happen. I reported it. Would you like to know what reporting it got me? Reporting it got me nothing. Nothing accomplished. Nothing. Even after I had established lines of communication with law enforcement.

In fact, it was so worthless to report to them that I began to wonder if they were involved in the whole child porn business. It made me so damn angry - Correction - it STILL makes me so damn angry! I asked our lawyer what he thought of the situation - me reporting all of these violations against humanity - and he said something I hadn't even considered. He said that they're not responding to you because they're possibly building a case against you.

Building a case against ME?! What will THAT accomplish? Wow, the political red tape is so counter-productive that it looks at the informant as the offender. Had they come after me, silenced me, or jailed me they would have eliminated their access to people who trusted our website as a safe place to distribute they were supposedly after. Amazing. I gave up on the police and child safety groups that supposedly take this matter as seriously as they say, as seriously as they should!

My absolute disgust in their discernment and ability to produce results lead me to take action on my own. At XTube I developed policies and procedures designed to prevent undesirable content from making it's way to the site, that at the same time quarantined the offensive content along with the offender. On numerous occasions I would find myself wasting an entire day researching one photo, it's uploader, it's origin and other sites it appeared on. I developed a little bit of a knack for gathering information on people, with only a few bits of information they provided to open their XTube account, that I could then use to contact them directly or find other sites they're on. Quite a few times I found these sub-human pieces of excrement were members of numerous CP swapping sites. Some of these asshats used the same login information on multiple sites, which allowed me to delete their accounts for them.

That's right - if you lost your pedophile account between 2004 and 2007 you can blame me. Come get me.

So, coming back to this law the Tori's are talking about… They want to force people report child porn, eh? Well let's consider what I have already learned, from experience, in the area. If you operate a website and someone posts child porn (cp. content) to it, the cp. content is now on your site. You're responsible for that because you're responsible for the website's operation. If you claim a blind-eye approach to operating the site then you're still responsible for quarantining the content, or deleting it - which ever you're legally requested to do.

So for example, someone posts cp content to the site, you find it then delete it thinking you've done a great deed. The police call you up and tell you how they know all about you, your personal life, your company and your server, then tell you that they need that content back for an investigation. Now what? You've got nothing they want and they now look at you as part of the problem.

Let's say you didn't delete it and you can provide to them. You can't email it to them. You can't burn it to disk. You can't download it to your computer and then delete it from the site. You have to leave it where it is and then block online access to it. Why? Because if you move or copy it you're guilty of possession AND distribution of cp. They'll nail you for that. If you don't block it properly and someone get's their hands on it, that's more distribution on your part, and let's not forget you're still guilty of possession.

The police/agency has to come to you, with a legitimate, signed subpoena and serve you that document. You have to read it - all of it, and then do only what the document instructs you to do. Anything outside the document specs incriminates you.

So with this new law they're making the people who do not report cp content into criminals, for not reporting it. I can tell you first hand that the people who are making the laws are idiots. The focus is in the wrong place. This law is not going to help stop cp and it is not going to make anyone feel safer for reporting it. If by reporting it you feel like you are the one under the microscope, like you're one mouse click away from criminal charges, then the first thing people are going to think is to delete the cp, and ban the user.

If I had access to the police-level tools I could sit at my desk and grab bad-guys all day long. But they don't, they can't and they won't. Instead the cops who give a shit are bound up by the red-tape. What needs to happen is for website operators to track upload data such as, IP address, username, user email, date/time, useragent data etc. All of that information can be used to track and convict the person who uploaded the child porn.

If you feel tracking that information is an infringement on people's privacy and freedoms, then you're right. It sounds like Obama, G.W. Bush, the Patriot Act, or guilty until proven innocent and all that NWO stuff. I don't like it either, but using a cp-sharing site is not a right under the US or Canadian constitution. The reason it's not a right is because your rights do no extend over top of another persons' rights, and child porn is the exploitation of another person against their will. It is malicious. The very idea of a cp-sharing site is malicious.

I hope that your children and grandchildren are never a victim of this, but I do hope that at some point you find a minute to look at the photos/videos of these children being violated so you can see the pain on their faces. Their once vibrant eyes now dark with despair, fear, sorrow and sadness. Violated, never able to trust another human being.

I have that hope for you because it is only then that this topic actually becomes real and not just words on the screen, or in the paper. It would sicken you, disgust you and motivate you.

So Tori's, go ahead, make this new law and find new ways to put the wrong people in jail and take their money. Tie up the police with your red tape and continue to do nothing productive about child porn. Because to you, this is only a tool to make you look like you care and to get you votes.

Until you do something productive let me ask you this: Do you sleep well at night, knowing you have the power to make a difference, and you don't use it?

About Lance Cassidy

I graduated from Computer Graphic Design, moved into Web Design, then teaching and later became a Manager of various people and departments over the years. I worked with the owners of Webnovas Technologies Inc. to invent XTube, the first adult tube site. I learned a lot there by becoming responsible for numerous roles all at the same time. Later I worked for a smaller company on a number of projects that were ultimately terminated, which lead me back into working with tube-style adult sites. Currently that site is xLive.com. We have a really good mobile site to go with it now and it's very popular. I am happy to have been able to create several policies and procedures that worked towards successfully protecting minors from sexual exploitation, while working in the adult industry. I would love to take my knowledge in that area and give presentations to parents and teens to teach them how to stay safe and out of jail.