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As the story goes, Axl Rose and Stephanie approached the Cobains backstage to start a fight. Axl insulted Kurt and their child, Kurt then asked Axl to be Frances' godfather. Stephanie, feeling left out, walked over to Courtney, who was boucing Frances on her knee and sneered, "Are you a model?" to which Courtney replied, "No, are you a brain surgeon?" Stephanie stuttered and then walked away.
Obviously, I have never met SS in person, but I've heard many stories by people who have and each one is worse than the last.
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And yet that is the entire point of the law - to keep people like me from punishing douchebags solely because he is a douchebag.
Man, this is why I like ethics so much more. The standard for behavior is so much higher. Even though an argument could be made that he was within his legal rights, very few would say what he did was ethical. #onlinepredators
11/04/09
Deery said, "You brought three condoms, one for me and one for each of the girls."
"They come in packs of three," he told her. "You can’t buy just one."
I mean, I could imagine just screaming "Fuck fuck fuck." over in your head when you realized how that would be seen by everybody. #onlinepredators
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I briefly got pretty much addicted to Internet porn when I was in junior high school (whole 'nother can of worms), and while I never was much one for the online chatting, I did it once in a while, and I remember vividly talking to a guy once where I got it into my head to pretend to be ten years old. Lord knows why- maybe he had said he was into younger girls, and I wanted to push that idea even further?- but I recall his discomfort with it (and probably curiosity at the incongruity of a 10-year old girl with a way too advanced vocabulary, spelling w/o a trace of chat-style shorthand, and supremely fast typing). I'm sure now he probably thought I was an undercover cop. But I definitely found it exciting/taboo/thrilling, and now, as an adult, I still occasionally entertain ageplay fantasies.
I don't think I really have a point with this story except that . . . yeah. Kids can have some pretty crazy sexual things going on in their minds, and in any online chatting I did, I always realized that it was meant to stay online and never cross into reality. #onlinepredators
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1. There are very nearly a bajillion girls who are willing to go on webcam and do sexual things, though their limits for what they'll do vary.
2. Most of this is on public sites where they're getting instant feedback from guys as they go. The rest are of the "Well I just sent it to my boyfriend who says he'll love me forever because he's my Edward and I'm his Bella" variety. Sigh.
3. Nearly all of these videos are recorded by the collective denizens of the internet, with many of them finding their way onto 'mainstream' video clip sites that mix soft porn with your usual CollegeHumor antics.
4. Unless the girls themselves say so, there's basically no way to know the ages of the girls involved, except with one's own best judgment (of a blurry webcam photo). Given that there's no identifying information tacked onto these videos or a means of contacting the girl in question, I imagine a girl would have to look significantly under 18 before a video moderator on one of those video clip sites would proactively pull it. From what I've read about how those sites operate, they're not super-geniuses, just people with massive workloads doing a five-second 'rule of thumb' glance at each video to see if it's obviously bad.
For all the easy controversy whipped up over teen 'sexting', the direction of webcam technology is what parents should really fret about. Sexting at least carries with it a trail of numbers, an 'outbreak' that can potentially be contained; Thanks to 4chan, the lowest common denominator of the internet, once a video's out there on the web, it's basically going to exist forever.
If I ever have kids, my future computer will include a mic if they want to use skype, but definitely no webcam. I fully accept that my future kids will feel the need to make their own stupid teenage mistakes, but I'd like to keep them from making one that'll stick around on the internet forever.
But hey, actual, legitimate fears of what your dumb kid will do on the internet that have a simple solution (ditch the webcam) don't make Chris Hansen rich off of America's prurient interests. #onlinepredators
11/05/09
Otherwise, nope, nope, nope. #onlinepredators
11/05/09
On-line solicitation of a minor for a sexual purpose, that is, with intent to commit a sexual activity with that minor, is one of the most investigated and targeted activities by both federal and state law enforcement in this day and age. The "on-line solicitation" as it is known as, is usually in the form of contact by electronic mail (e-mail), instant messaging, or other use of the Internet.
The contact with a minor (underage person), often a male contacting an underage female, becomes a violation of state and federal law when the conversation turns to content of a sexual nature to the extent that it appears that the contacting person is communicating in a sexually explicit manner with the contacted person....
However, the person making the on-line communication may be prosecuted even if he does not follow through with contact with the minor, but rather merely communicates in a sexually explicit manner. Also, persons can be prosecuted here if they forward sexually explicit material to the minor.
[www.teakelllaw.com] #onlinepredators
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A responsible and healthy human being, upon hearing someone's fantasies that include child molestation, has a responsibility to seek help for an obviously disturbed individual.
At the very least, the human being should have some guts and tell the mentally sick individual that such fantasies are disturbing and the person should seek mental help.
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No sympathy. #onlinepredators
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Clearly these men have problems, but I'm not sure the practice of netting them is on the up-and-up. #onlinepredators
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It's one of those clarifying moments- thank God we jailed him up. Because if we hadn't, he might have gone out and molested Bart and Lisa, or other yellow cartoon children with four fingers! Our cartoons are finally safe from being exploited in this detestable way.
There are so many real children being horribly exploited who need help. Not the Simpsons. #onlinepredators
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If there are real dangers and real minors that's one thing. These arrests because a guy was thinking about having sex with an imaginary person who was described as a minor are problematic. #onlinepredators
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