alt Hacker NewsSeems like a pretty big difference. It's got to be worse to actually do something to somone in real life than not do that.
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lysp • today at 4:57 AM
Not really, otherwise perpetrators will just "I was just looking at it, I didn't do anything as bad as creating it". Their act is still illegal.
There was a cartoon picture I remember seeing around 15+ years ago of Bart Simpson performing a sex act. In some jurisdictions (such as Australia), this falls under the legal definition.
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Just because there are different degrees of severity and different ways to offend doesn't make it not contraband.