Re: Washington state might ban CP surfing this year

If the history of CP prosecution is that they mostly caught the ignorant, the extremely unlucky, and those who were turned in by disgruntled relatives or co-workersthen the future looks to be even more confined to those relatively small and diminishing categories, and laws against CP surfing are going to be widely regarded as ineffectual and irrelevant.

This is true, but don't count on it stopping our moralism-driven lawmakers to at least try to impose as many restrictions as they can get away with in their endless "feel good" efforts to stop people from looking at certain images on the Web that offend the sensibilities of the general public, and to even go so far as to try and make the usage of Wi-Fi technology and other types of mobile and wireless connections to the Internet illegal or at least impose heavy restrictions upon their usage if such methods are found to impede the attempts of LEOs to stop people from the horrible crime of looking at pictures that the public doesn't approve of. When you see many people in the mainstream starting to get pissed off about such laws and their ramifications despite the rampant hatred and disgust of people who get any degree of pleasure from viewing nude pics of underagers, you know these politicians are beginning to overreach and go too damn far for increasing numbers of people in the general public to tolerate. The fact that so many people are finally starting to question the civil rights ramifcations of telling people what pictures they can and cannot look at despite the widespread distaste with the concept of youth sexuality being a valid form of sexuality to respect shows that there is hope for this nonsense to finally stop in the future, and that in the end, people in this nation really do respect the concept of freedom more than they do draconian based laws to combat a certain perceived menace when no demonstrable harm to anyone is caused by the acts underlying those perceived menaces.