closed Casualty Of Porn?

[Dave Zan]

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/mi...ty_of_porn?rnd=1142532572802&has-player=false

Not long ago, Chris Wilson was just another anonymous geek making a modest living off amateur porn. Today he's the most notorious man online.

The twenty-eight-year-old founder of nowthats****edup.com, a site where guys swap sexually explicit shots of their wives and girlfriends, was arrested in October at his Lakeland, Florida, home -- a raid in which Wilson was cuffed and his computer seized. Now he's out on bail and possibly facing life in prison after being hit with one of the stiffest obscenity charges in the history of the Net. But there's burgeoning doubt over which dirty pictures really landed him behind bars: the site's quotidian porn or its hundreds of graphic images, allegedly uploaded by U.S. soldiers, of dead Iraqis.

Hmmm...does this remind you of someone?

 

[tas38]

Boy I would hate to be him, but I'm sure the case will be dropped at some point. He will sure have hell till they do drop it, and indeed it would set new rules for porn on the net.

 

[Momentum]

Basically if you read between the lines, this is an attempt by DOD to nip the situation in the bud before it becomes another Abu Ghraib. Once all traces of the Iraqi photos are disposed of, they will probably go lenient on him. But the reality is that his actions (and the actions of the soldiers) put a lot of people's lives in jeopardy with the risk of escalating terrorist attacks and violent uprisings across the whole Middle East.

This whole story makes for a good debate for freedom of speech vs. national security.