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Story: Internet porn: Guilty till proven innocent

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Right on. Companies often generate a spurious excuse to dismiss an employee in order to disguise the real reason and avoid compensation. But look at the wider issue: It costs the police some £2,000 to conduct a forensic investigation of a computer hard drive. With several hundred thousand cases pending, how long will it take before common sense kicks in? At this rate not until police forces blow their entire budget on this fruitless exercise. We are talking of some £500,000,000 whick is coming out of householders' Council tax.
The "Trojan" defence is interesting, but I suspect that as top government officials get drawn in, the investigation will suddenly run out of steam. Still at least that's one thing Blunkett can't be accused of.
While hardly condoning pornography, particularly child pornography, you have to realise it is an adiction, rather than a crime. So therapy is the answer, not incarceration of lawabiding, largely middle-class men. What is the percentage in giving people like accountants and solicitors a criminal record? You render them unemployable, particularly in the UK, so kiss goodbye all that potential tax income Gordon Brown.
Britain's problem is it has never grown out of its Victorian "dirty picture" hangup. Our pornography laws are the strictest in Europe. So instead of authority taking out its frustration on the mug punter, go after those supplying and abusing children to produce pornographic images.
Can't believe it has taken this long for computer manufacturers to supply their machines with software that wipes a user's downloading record. Inexpensive programmes that defeat an expensive police investigation are definately one in the eye for authority.

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