ACLU Says “Sexting” isn’t Child Porn
I can see both sides of the coin here, but the way the headline reads just makes the ACLU look silly… They are fighting to lessen the punishment for sexting.
Something needs to be done about sexting. We could start by, oh I don’t know, how about talking to our kids about not taking naked pictures of themselves and sending them to people. What is it with this generation?!
Past that, if parents won’t teach their kids – then I guess the law has to. But if we make exceptions for kids and not make sexting something they should be scared to do (if not for the simple sake of personal humiliation, then in a legal sense), then will it ever stop? Or curb, rather (I am not dumb enough to think it will actually stop).
The problem with sexting, among other things, is that those photos eventually make it to the Internet. Then there is no stopping them. If parents have PC Pandora monitoring software on their PCs, they will know if their child is a victim of, or furthering, sexting.
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January 15, 2010
Court asked to allow prosecution for ‘sexting’
ACLU argues that Pa. teens’ racy images shouldn’t be criminalized
By Jon Hurdle, Reuters
PHILADELPHIA – A teenage girl who appeared topless in a “sexting” cell phone picture that was distributed among her middle-school classmates should face child-pornography charges, a Pennsylvania prosecutor argued before a U.S. appellate court on Friday.
In the first U.S. case to test the constitutional status of “sexting,” the American Civil Liberties Union countered that the incident does not come close to meeting the definition of child pornography which typically depicts graphic sexual acts with minors and is done for commercial gain.