In an article in today’s Times Online, it is reported that:
“Paedophiles are creating virtual lives for themselves online so that they can act out their sexual fantasies with young children in chilling detail.
The characters that they create, known as avatars, are able to go into sites that are hidden from general view and take part in illegal acts including torture and rape.
…Undercover officers at the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) have gone into a number of the sites to check for any threats to children.
…The Government is reviewing proposals to make it an offence to possess computer-generated images of children being sexually abused.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said: “While real children are not sexually abused through the creation of these images, we are concerned that they could fuel the sexual abuse of children by reinforcing abusers’ feelings towards them, or for ‘grooming’ or preparing children for sexual abuse.” “
I thought one of the comments on the article hilarious.
“Why don’t the authorities send in cyber undercover agents and cyber arrest them, they can be taken to cyber courts for trial, if found guilty the pedophiles can be cyber castrated, cyber humanely.”
He has a point. In their zeal to fight peadophiles, the government are crossing over into thought crime. How can they outlaw fantasy - however sick and twisted it is?
It smacks of the usual civil liberties containment strategy: Create bad laws to tackle the subject of a moral panic (Communists, Peadophiles, Hooligans, Terrorists) then misapply that law to dissidents or other undesirables.
Paedophiles live out their fantasies in a virtual world - Times Online
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