Name: Anonymous 2018-11-13 2:23
go away, do not post unsavory content on this website
The Constitution is the highest law in the United StatesThe 1st amendment is the part of the constitution that recognises the principle of free speech as a human right. It is not the principle of free speech itself that predates the founding of the United States of America.
Child pornography is obscenityChild pornography is provably free speech. But specifically for the USA, consider the following:
Zimmermann challenged these regulations in an imaginative way. He published the entire source code of PGP in a hardback book,[16] via MIT Press, which was distributed and sold widely. Anybody wishing to build their own copy of PGP could cut off the covers, separate the pages, and scan them using an OCR program (or conceivably enter it as a type-in program if OCR software was not available), creating a set of source code text files. One could then build the application using the freely available GNU Compiler Collection. PGP would thus be available anywhere in the world. The claimed principle was simple: export of munitions—guns, bombs, planes, and software—was (and remains) restricted; but the export of books is protected by the First Amendmentand
After four years and one regulatory change, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that software source code was speech protected by the First Amendment and that the government's regulations preventing its publication were unconstitutionalNow, consider someone distributing CP by printing a book that contains the source code a program that prints a base64 representation of a CP jpeg. Are you sure that this is not protected under the First Amendment?
CP is illegal because its production endangers childrenA sane law would illegalise only its production (and maybe also illegalise funding it) then. The distribution and having cp harms nobody.
Writing some opinion piece doesn't harm anyone physically like penetrating a child after emotionally manipulating him for a few months, and potentially alienating them from their familyCool, so illegalise child rape, nobody is against that.
Censorship only covers political contentI disagree, censorship can cover basically anything.
This is not censorship because the production of child pornography harms children whether it was created with the intention of being a political statementI find this illogical as only the production of CP harms children. I do personally disagree that removing something that harms someone is not censorship but even when not taking this into account removing CP is censorship because its distribution and display harms nobody.