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Is Clicking a Crime?
Valleywag — ... And of course, it loses its investigative value against anyone savvy enough to use Tor or some other anonymizing service. But technical complications aside, can clicking on a link really be a crime? Efforts to combat child pornography and sexual abuse have become less and less grounded in the real world in recent decades, as prosecutors have attempted to jail people for viewing fake kiddie porn in which no real children were harmed and for attempting to meet with minors who don't exist. It's undoubtedly a good thing if pervs everywhere stop clicking ...

Is Clicking a Crime?
Gawker: valleywag — ... And of course, it loses its investigative value against anyone savvy enough to use Tor or some other anonymizing service. But technical complications aside, can clicking on a link really be a crime? Efforts to combat child pornography and sexual abuse have become less and less grounded in the real world in recent decades, as prosecutors have attempted to jail people for viewing fake kiddie porn in which no real children were harmed and for attempting to meet with minors who don't exist. It's undoubtedly a good thing if pervs everywhere stop clicking ...

Is Clicking a Crime?
Gawker Comments — ... in which no real children were harmed and for attempting to meet with minors who don't exist . It's undoubtedly a good thing if pervs everywhere stop clicking on links that purport to show kiddie porn for fear of FBI agents descending on their homes a day or two later. But a mouseclick is an awfully slight action on which to hang a three-year sentence, which Vosburgh is facing. And clicking doesn't even have to be a crime: Judges have ruled in the porn honeypot cases that the clicks also constitute probable cause for a search warrant, which is even more troubling and ...

Is Clicking a Crime?
Gawker Comments — ... in which no real children were harmed and for attempting to meet with minors who don't exist . It's undoubtedly a good thing if pervs everywhere stop clicking on links that purport to show kiddie porn for fear of FBI agents descending on their homes a day or two later. But a mouseclick is an awfully slight action on which to hang a three-year sentence, which Vosburgh is facing. And clicking doesn't even have to be a crime: Judges have ruled in the porn honeypot cases that the clicks also constitute probable cause for a search warrant, which is even more troubling and ...

Is Clicking a Crime?
Gawker Comments — ... in which no real children were harmed and for attempting to meet with minors who don't exist . It's undoubtedly a good thing if pervs everywhere stop clicking on links that purport to show kiddie porn for fear of FBI agents descending on their homes a day or two later. But a mouseclick is an awfully slight action on which to hang a three-year sentence, which Vosburgh is facing. And clicking doesn't even have to be a crime: Judges have ruled in the porn honeypot cases that the clicks also constitute probable cause for a search warrant, which is even more troubling and ...

Is Clicking a Crime?
Gawker Comments — ... in which no real children were harmed and for attempting to meet with minors who don't exist . It's undoubtedly a good thing if pervs everywhere stop clicking on links that purport to show kiddie porn for fear of FBI agents descending on their homes a day or two later. But a mouseclick is an awfully slight action on which to hang a three-year sentence, which Vosburgh is facing. And clicking doesn't even have to be a crime: Judges have ruled in the porn honeypot cases that the clicks also constitute probable cause for a search warrant, which is even more troubling and ...

Is Clicking a Crime?
Gawker Comments — ... in which no real children were harmed and for attempting to meet with minors who don't exist . It's undoubtedly a good thing if pervs everywhere stop clicking on links that purport to show kiddie porn for fear of FBI agents descending on their homes a day or two later. But a mouseclick is an awfully slight action on which to hang a three-year sentence, which Vosburgh is facing. And clicking doesn't even have to be a crime: Judges have ruled in the porn honeypot cases that the clicks also constitute probable cause for a search warrant, which is even more troubling and ...