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Old March 13th, 2007, 03:42 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
no1_vern
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Free speech or perversion?

If a pedophile posts pictures of your under aged children on his website, do you have a right to force him to quit? In a recent news article apparently an attorney for Obama sent a "cease and desist" order to a pedophile who had pictures of the Candidates' children on his site.
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"Individuals can make comments about the candidates and the candidates' children without running afoul of the law until someone crosses the line into actual or criminal activity," said Lawrence G. Walters, a lawyer who has handled many cases involving pornography and the Internet. "For better or worse, pedophiles retain their free speech rights. If he's a professed pedophile and if he says, 'Let's try to find these kids,' then it could be in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy, then he may be liable."

Please note, we aren't talking about naked pictures nor pron, just pictures of under aged children that have already been run elsewhere along with some comments like
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"I have decided to make my predictions based upon what lovely First Daughter we can look forward to watching grow up for four to eight years."

do you think you should have the right to have the pictures removed?
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