07-08-2010, 11:19 AM
Pedophile-pandering internet pornographer Thomas "Chip" White is about to be legislated out of business in California. Senate Bill 203 has unanimously passed the state assembly's public safety committee and will go to the assembly floor for approval. The bill expands the definition of “distribute” to include “making available for access or possession over the internet."
Child Pornography Legislation Unanimously Clears Assembly Policy Committee
Child Pornography Legislation Unanimously Clears Assembly Policy Committee
Quote:6/22/2010
Senator Tom Harman (R-Huntington Beach) announced unanimous passage of Senate Bill 203 by the Assembly Committee on Public Safety. SB 203 would make it a felony to transmit or share child pornography over the Internet.
“I am heartened to see some consensus on this important issue. Senate Bill 203 sends a clear message to child pornographers that sharing sexually explicit images of children over the internet will not be tolerated in California,” said Harman.
Senate Bill 203 addresses the issue of file-sharing over the internet. Currently, Penal Code Chapter 7.5 relative to child pornography completely ignores peer-to-peer file transfers which are an increasingly popular method of file-sharing over the internet.
“SB 203 goes after pedophiles that enable the “share” function in their peer-to-peer program when they send downloaded images of child pornography. This essentially makes the images available to millions of internet viewers,” said Harman. “We can not forget these children are victims of sexual exploitation. Stopping millions of millions of people from viewing the images will never undo the reprehensible effects of sexual exploitation, but it is a step in the right direction.”
Proof that a suspect made downloaded images available for distribution to others via peer-to-peer file transfer is typically found in a forensic examination of a suspect’s computer. When a forensic examination shows that a suspect possessed a particular image of child sexual exploitation, and finds that the image is located in a “shared” folder and that the “share” function of the particular peer-to-peer program is enabled, that individual has made the image available for distribution. Because measuring peer-to-peer traffic on the internet is so difficult, there is simply no way to tell how many hundreds, thousands, or even millions of users actually received that file.
If enacted, Senate Bill 203 would amend the definition of “distribute,” as used in Chapter 7.5, to include “making available for access or possession over the internet.” SB 203 protects California’s children by ensuring that pedophiles are punished for the distribution of child pornography.
Senate Bill 203 will now go to the Assembly floor for final approval.