1984 is not a manual! - British minister admits thought crime is on the agenda
theregister.co.uk/2009/03/18/thought_crime/Posted Mar 21, 2009, 3:38 AM UTC
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Pathetic British complacency will ensure that the continued surveillance of its entire populace will go off without a single protest.
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See US PROTECT Act of 2003.
Among other things, prohibits computer generated child pornography, and prohibits drawings, sculptures, and pictures of minors engaged in obscene sex acts, where obscene is defined by the Miller test.
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Thought-crimes are allready here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7770781.stm
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No they're not. That's a drawing, not a fucking thought. Yeah, it's bullshit that guys get locked up for non-crimes like this, but it's not thoughtcrime.
You and almost everyone else are degrading the concept of what thoughtcrime actually is. Thought. LITERALLY thought. Orwell's entire point was that once a government can read and control your thoughts, they can reign indefinitely.
My fucking God, come on. Did any of you even read the book?
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The guy looks like a frigging paedophile to me: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01005/George-Howarth-220_1005002f.jpg
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Just to make sure I got this:
You can arrested (in the UK) for watching porn where the adults are dress and/or acting like children. This is because even though the actors are of legal age, you (the viewer) can imagine them being a child.
This would also go for cartoon porn as well?
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Nah, they're discussing legislation to criminalize your perverted drawings of naked children, not your vile fantasies of bukkake'ing their innocent little faces you sicko.
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It's a bad sign that, for me at least, that title has lost it's power to shock.