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MachWun t1_iu1nvli wrote

Reply to comment by C1V in Young children exploited on OnlyFans, says US agent by charmbrood

Ok, Here.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/07/cyber/cyberlaw/10law.html

"In addition, the government argued that even if Matthews were a legitimate journalist working on a story, he had no more right under the First Amendment to receive and disseminate illegal images of minors than a reporter would have in buying crack cocaine in pursuit of a story about drugs"

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perverse_panda t1_iu2l85q wrote

Not really a comparable example. This isn't a guy who spotted child porn on a website and then notified the authorities. This is a guy who was sending out pornographic images of children to other people. He was receiving and distributing.

I imagine it's the distributing part that got him arrested.

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