Morphic Tide
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"Moral Guardians" and sketchy assholes who use their vigor against it to reduce suspicion about their own would have inevitably forced it eventually, no matter how few and far between the cases are. Most of the cases that have come out are "particularly well-developed 16 year old says she's just over the line to get some money under the table", falling under it purely because of the draconian zero-compromises nature of child pornography laws.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the laws as currently written make sense primarily as an attack vector, not a mode of justice, because the letter of the law makes the sentence stick even if it gets planted. There is no backing out of it, you will be absolutely fucked in court if it ever comes up, making the slightest touch of it utterly unavoidable blackmail.
Edit: We are seriously having people jailed because their girlfriend from six years ago sexted when both were under 18, because the law only cares that an adult nominally owns it. There is no grandfather clause, there is no "romeo and juliet" clause, the police can chuck you in the slammer if it's from 1870 and the girl in it died at a hundred and two.
It very much is at the point of being a victimless crime. There's too many ways to distribute to too many people and hold onto it for too long, and too much teenage stupidity counts. Defenses of it always treat it like every single case is ass-raping six year olds to death. There really, really needs to be a blunt legal recognition that not all minors lack a sex drive.
In that the entire 13-17 range of puberty in full swing is treated little different from baby-rape. Despite every possibility that they are the ones recording and posting it in the first place. You have the picture, you go in the slammer, even if there's literally not a single shred of harm to the person in the image because they were just a horny teenager.
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