Reply #120: Allow me to correct myself...

[JackRiddler]

In the case of the child porn spam, you do have the option of rushing to the cops and letting them into your house and your machine, in the hope they will promptly and fully exonerate you. Might work, if you happen to be good friends with the Sherriff in your Shire. Might not turn out so well, in towns of population 14 or higher, or if the Sherriff thinks you're a Red.

The only concern with real child porn images (that is, of actual children) in an electronic age should be in tracking down the source, the makers of said images, so as to protect real children and prosecute their abusers. Anything else is the short road to a police state. But the state has prosecuted, I am not kidding, a guy who cut and paste (physically, with scissors and glue) the heads of children onto pictures of naked people in a magazine.