In a parallel move, coaching children into uploading indecent images of themselves is to become a criminal offence.
I see what Cameron means by this proposal & I suspect the only use case he had presented was a 50 year old adult coaching an underage kid to upload indecent images.
However I suspect this will be used in much the same way that the 'sexting' laws in both the US & UK have been used, to criminalise perfectly normal & 'innocent' relationships between the 'legal border ages' for sexual consent (for example a 15 & 16 year old in a relationship together, or as it stands for making images 17/18). Lets face it in the US, they wanted the kids involved put on their version of the sex offenders register for life & there was a case in sweden/norway??? (that part of Europe) where they tried to prosecute similar aged youngers for distributing 'child porn' which turned out to be 'sexy selfies' sent between gf/bf
Lets hope this law doesnt end up looking like an ass & getting used for situations such as the above where no criminal intent or abuse got carried out.
Also is it me or are the current crop of politicos intent on constantly making new laws?? Usually badly written ones as they are so rushed in order to provide the media knee-jerk attention the politicos all crave? What happened to having well written / understood & enforced laws? If I'm mistaken please correct but isnt it better to have 1/2 laws over situation X that are fully enforced (or at least say over 80% enforced), instead of a 100 laws for situation X that arent enforced at all unless the cops happen to decide they want to?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
