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US: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 44 points 2 years ago (6 children)

People like me, who are against the death penalty on principle. (or even more "creative" forms of punishment people like to come up with in these cases).
No, prison is where this guy belongs. For as long as necessary.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Further to this its not likely to result in less children being abused.

    If you have the death penalty for even possessing CSAM as the parent suggests, then there is no incentive to not get into distribution or even actively abusing children and producing CSAM once you posess some. The punishment isnt any worse so why not? Its the same reason for proportionality in other crimes, we dont punish robbing a bank with life in jail as then there would be no reason for anyone who robs a bank to not just murder everyone to leave no witnessess.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    And if you propose the death penalty for abusing children, a child abuser has incentive to kill the child afterwards to get rid of the witness.
    The punishment can't get any worse, and it reduces the chance of getting caught.

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  • [+] -25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Oh, I was thinking something far worst than death. I was thinking something like a torture rack.

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