Web publisher gets five years probation

[Whoozyerdaddy]

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Apr 22, 12:07 AM EDT

Porn Site Owner Gets 5 Years Probation

BARTOW, Fla. (AP) -- A man who ran a pornographic Web site that included grisly photographs of war dead taken by U.S. troops was sentenced Friday to five years' probation, his attorney said.

Chris Wilson, 28, a former Eagle Lake police officer, pleaded no contest in January to five misdemeanor charges of possession of obscene materials. The state dismissed 296 other similar charges.

Wilson's Web site gave soldiers free access to pornography in exchange for posting pictures from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Polk County sheriff's officials said Wilson's arrest in October stemmed from the site's sexually explicit content, not the pictures of war dead.

"He agreed to stay out of the adult Web site business for the term of his probation," defense attorney Larry Walters said.

Though the Web site launched a Pentagon investigation into how war zone photos of charred and dismembered bodies described as victims of U.S. attacks could have surfaced, military investigators did not pursue criminal charges against Wilson.

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I have a problem with this.

I think what this guy was doing was disgusting. Some here will say that we need to see this kind of thing to "wake us up" to what is going on in Iraq & Afghanistan. I say that pretty much everyone knows what's going on there, we don't need to see mutilated bodies to remind us.

Be that as it may..............................................

Targeting this guy under obscenity laws is wrong. Even though the government claimed they were after him for porn it doesn't take a genius to figure out that this was all about the gore pics he was soliciting from troops in the ME. And while I think that his publishing the pics is in incredibly bad taste, his case was an obvious abuse of power by the government.

Shaking my head here...

 

[Cerb]

Quite a creative way to get the guy. I guess he was smart enough to pay his taxes.

And yes, this is a serious abuse of power. In general, however, obscenity laws are about nothing but government power.

 

[LcarsSystem]

Censorship needs to get nuked.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

Wilson's Web site gave soldiers free access to pornography in exchange for posting pictures from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Polk County sheriff's officials said Wilson's arrest in October stemmed from the site's sexually explicit content, not the pictures of war dead.

So showing horrid pictures of people killed in many terrible ways is just fine, but people having sex or posing nude? No, that's dangerous, people can't see that.
What the hell????:shocked: