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Unintended consequences of outlawing common sense
> The rapid introduction of full body scanners at British airports threatens
> to breach child protection (More from guardian.co.uk on Child protection)
> [1] laws which ban the creation of indecent images of children, the
> Guardian has learned.
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“New scanners break child porn laws | Politics | The Guardian [2]”
Ooooh, I just love unintended consequences, or as jwz [3] said when he posted
this [4]: “What happens when the immovable object of terrorism meets the
unstoppable force of kiddie porn?” I can see this playing out thusly: those
under 18 are exempt, so terrorists now use kids to smuggle the bomb materials
aboard. Once that is discovered, the next step is to force parents and kids
to separate sections of the planes, so now the terrorist kids are trained to
trigger the explosions themselves [5]. Kids are then banned from flying (not
that I would argue with such an outcome).
The other scenario—pedophiles attempt en mass to become security screeners.
Speaking of unintended consequences and pedophiles, comes this story of a
grandmother charged with kiddie porn [6] because she took the obligatory
grandkids in the bathtub photo [7]. I swear, given the level of hysteria here
(and it's not even limited to the United States [8]) that one would think
pedophiles by now would know to develop their own film, but I guess common
sense has been legislated out of existence.
[1]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/childprotection
[2]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jan/04/new-scanners-child-porn-laws
[3]
http://www.jwz.org/
[4]
http://jwz.livejournal.com/1148940.html
[5]
http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11274430.html
[6]
http://jonathanturley.org/2009/05/05/dull-tools-prosecutors-says-they-
[7]
http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&safe=off&um=1&sa=1&q=kids+bathtubs&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&start=0
[8]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1035315/Father
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