Nope, I've looked at the laws. You can watch/stream millions of hours of child porn perfectly legally. It's the downloading/possession of even a minute of child porn on your hard drive where the government draws the line.
And like you already said, it's like drugs. It isn't illegal to do drugs, it's illegal to possess those drugs. It isn't illegal to watch and masturbate to child porn, it's illegal to actually have a copy on your hard drive that you can view without the internet.
I've got a horrible feeling he's right. Governments set guidelines for what is illegal, not what is legal. No wonder it's so hard to find conclusive evidence.
I can't find any evidence for bathing in ketchup being legal, doesn't mean it's illegal. ;)
On a serious note, if you do find anything conclusive about the streaming thing, please post it, I'd like to know.
From the information I can gather, it seems its legal to view online images in the US. But I'm struggling to find confirmation. It's a greyer area than one would think.
It's probably similar to drugs. It's not illegal to do cocaine but everything else along the journey to using it is illegal so it's not necessary to make a law saying you can't get high on it. By viewing child porn you're probably breaking existing laws related to possession, transmission or promotion so it doesn't seem necessary to outlaw viewing it specifically.
You're probably right, but such presumptions aren't facts. Neither you or I know for fact, that it's illegal to view child porn on an online browser, despite us both being aware of what common sense suggests. Until I know for certain, I won't make the presumption.
Is it normal that my boyfriend was looking at pictures of child porn?
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Clearly not, as we've seen. The OP mentions how her boyfriend viewed it but didn't own it. He just viewed it online.
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I'm sure the law accounts for such transmissions between computers.
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Nope, I've looked at the laws. You can watch/stream millions of hours of child porn perfectly legally. It's the downloading/possession of even a minute of child porn on your hard drive where the government draws the line.
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Can you link this information?
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Nope. I have better things to do than prove something so trivial to someone that I already spent time to look into for myself before.
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I doubt you on both counts.
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And like you already said, it's like drugs. It isn't illegal to do drugs, it's illegal to possess those drugs. It isn't illegal to watch and masturbate to child porn, it's illegal to actually have a copy on your hard drive that you can view without the internet.
I've got a horrible feeling he's right. Governments set guidelines for what is illegal, not what is legal. No wonder it's so hard to find conclusive evidence.
I can't find any evidence for bathing in ketchup being legal, doesn't mean it's illegal. ;)
On a serious note, if you do find anything conclusive about the streaming thing, please post it, I'd like to know.
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It's probably similar to drugs. It's not illegal to do cocaine but everything else along the journey to using it is illegal so it's not necessary to make a law saying you can't get high on it. By viewing child porn you're probably breaking existing laws related to possession, transmission or promotion so it doesn't seem necessary to outlaw viewing it specifically.
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You're probably right, but such presumptions aren't facts. Neither you or I know for fact, that it's illegal to view child porn on an online browser, despite us both being aware of what common sense suggests. Until I know for certain, I won't make the presumption.