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Posted 29 March 2009 - 12:23 AM

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So, apparently, this 14 year old, she could face jail time and registering as a sex offender because she posted naked pictures of herself on myspace. This zero tolerance thing is just brilliant. Apparently its occuring more and more often. I'm not in any way for any of that stuff, but if you're under eighteen you should still be able to see yourself naked without being arrested. I think, as usual, people are worried more about the letter of the law than the spirit.


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Posted 29 March 2009 - 10:33 PM

That sounds pretty silly, but if she's distributing the pictures to other people, then she's giving out child porn. They're probably doing her a favor by locking her up, because that kind of stunt on Myspace can get you a lot of dangerous attention.
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Posted 30 March 2009 - 01:19 AM

Hyuck hyuck. The way shit gets reported is hilarious. "Sexting" as they call it is some sort of "growing trend" that has parents "baffled nationwide." Uh ... yeah. This is just the age-old game of "doctor" with the technology to create a permanent record of it. As far as "growing trends" go, I dare say that about 2% of teenage girls even think about doing it, and fewer still actually do it.

It's like they figure there's no point in reporting anything without attaching some national emergency to it.
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Posted 30 March 2009 - 03:31 AM

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As far as "growing trends" go, I dare say that about 2% of teenage girls even think about doing it, and fewer still actually do it.

Nope. It definitely is a growing trend. Very fast growing trend. You'd be surprised, apparently.

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Posted 30 March 2009 - 01:36 PM

Civ- Actually, there is a growing trend in the US of prosecutions of minors for distributing child porn of themselves to their other friends, also usually minors. It's one of those news stories that makes you want to break out into Oh Canada.

Edit: Wouldn't it be great if parents were able to tell their children that sending naked photos of themselves isn't cool, and if there were no need for them to get arrested and charged as sex offenders for it? What sort of strange fantasy world would this be where parents, and not the police or anti-child abuse groups could take care of their own children?

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Posted 31 March 2009 - 05:12 AM

Yeah all right. I need stats on this "growqing trend." Let's say we had ten cases in the courts last year and this year we have tenty-five. Is that really more than a small statistical bump? Can we really call that a scenario that is "baffling parents nationwide?"

If it's somthing bigger thab that, yeah I'd like to see the stats.

This sounds to me like the whole bullshit "rainbow parties" phenomenon, as reported on Oprah.
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Posted 31 March 2009 - 06:21 AM

Nah, it's just the mere fact that all the teens got the cellphone cameras, and still fall madly in love like they always did and therefore do stupid stuff, or they just do stupid stuff simply because, or they do it because there's also that growing trend to lean a bit more towards what us old crackers would call sluttiness. I'm sure you noticed that too.

How many of those cases reach the courts wouldn't really be a reliable statistic - it's comparable to the relative number of people going to court because they've been ripped off by elongation-spam-mails. Who'd want to make that stuff public?

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Posted 31 March 2009 - 09:45 AM

I think the "growing trend" refers to teens taking naked pics and putting them on the internet, even if it's just an email. Not the court cases.

Teenagers and preteens have always done stupid shit: they want to be the center of attention, have body image issues, want compliments, want to feel love, etc. Now it's just way easy for one of those stupid things to be taking a naked (or undies) pic and putting it up. There are seriously a LOT of preteens and teens doing this. It was even a pretty high occurrence just a few years ago when I was a teenager, and I do think it's grown since then.
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Posted 31 March 2009 - 01:03 PM

I do agree with what Civ says, in that the media is blowing what's going on out of proportion making it into some kind of plague, hence fueling suspicion and rumor among the cluelessly old folks. My adolescence was crazy enough without my father wanting to check my cel phone for naked pictures of me/my friends.

I think that rather than drawing attention to this massive tidal wave of teens creating porn of themselves that threatens to engulf our society, we should be focusing more on the fact that kids are being prosecuted as sex offenders because of it.

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Posted 31 March 2009 - 07:35 PM

I think because the media is making such a large fuss about something that was/is bound to happen by attention whore, 16 year old girls, it's creating a real "growing trend" in other places... if you know what I mean...


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Posted 31 March 2009 - 08:06 PM

I supppose I have to admit that there are more webcam videos of 20-somethings dancing in their underwear on youtube than there were when I went to high school and youtube didn't exist. But back then we still had back-of-the bus flashing, underage alcoholism, bush parties, car sex, STDs and teen pregnancy. I knew one girl whose first sexual experience at 16 was taking on 3 guys at a house party. She felt pretty bad about it afterward, so I don't think childhood stupidity is on the rise. The bosses in the media outlets like hyping things, and the conservative power base puts pressure on the law to protect society from the youthful immorality they heard about/read about/saw on tv. This sort of rthing (minus the tv) has been going on for centuries and people haven't changed much.

If these folks can show that there is a growing trend of STDs and teen pregnancy, then maybe some parents out there have some parenting to do. Otherwise I stand by my "rainbow parties analogy" and I say it's all hype.

I agree with jm on this one that these folks need to think about who the child porn laws were designed to protect, and lay off prosecuting children.
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Posted 01 April 2009 - 12:58 AM

That's kind of what I meant. Kids will always do stupid things but not the stupid things can be these technological things that couldn't have been done a couple decades ago, so the trend is growing fast! rolleyes.gif

And I agree that these convictions are ridiculous, but I do think kids need to be made more aware of the danger they put themselves in when they do stuff like this. And they should get in trouble when they are caught. And as usual parents don't do the job of it, so the government thinks they need to step in, and maybe they do (I don't even care to try to make my own opinion on that at the mo') but this isn't the way of it.

If I had been caught doing shit like this when I was a teen, or heck, even NOW, I wouldn't be alive to get convicted. tongue.gif
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Posted 01 April 2009 - 11:44 PM

Good thing you were never caught, eh?
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Posted 02 April 2009 - 04:36 PM

Alright, I can understand arresting her. That makes sense.

But...

Making her register as a sex-offender? That makes a mockery of the sex-offender registry system.
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Posted 05 April 2009 - 08:39 PM

the next step is to charge the police that run the lock-up where confiscated child porn is stored for possession of child porn.
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