It's heartbreaking that Muslim countries have a much higher standard of morality when it comes to child sexual abuse imaging. Western countries are rushing headlong toward Sodom and are being held back by Muslim African countries and Russia. Astonishing!
Biden/Europeans Argue Protection of Virtual Pedophile Smut
NEW YORK, February 9 (C-Fam) The Biden administration, the European Union, and other Western countries have asked the General Assembly to decriminalize some forms of teenage child pornography and virtual child pornography. This, in a new binding treaty on cybercrime.
However, more than thirty traditional countries opposed the draft of the treaty during negotiations last week.
The new treaty would replace the strict unified standard against child pornography used in international law with a flexible one that varies between countries. Western countries argued the new standard is necessary to protect the sexual autonomy of teenagers who share sexual images of themselves and the privacy of people who produce and consume some forms of virtual child pornography.
A flexible standard would make it 100 times more difficult for international organizations to fight against this heinous scourge.
The Biden administration supported the new framework during a polarized exchange in negotiations last week. “We need to allow some flexibility for minors who engage in sexual activity and to allow domestic laws with different ages of consent,” a U.S. delegate said.
Minors who engage in sexting are very vulnerable to sextortion. This idea would certainly result in an increase in suicides by kids being extorted or being victims of revenge porn.
Traditional countries questioned how it’s possible to protect children from predators if individuals are allowed to produce, possess, and share any form of child pornography at all.
While the draft treaty would not make all forms of teenage or virtual child pornography legal, it expressly states that virtual child pornography may be legalized and become available in some countries so long as it does not involve “a real child” or actual sexual abuse.
That is such an abominably short-sighted attitude. Sin is progressive! Teens and pedophiles who enjoy virtual child sexual abuse will not remain as such. They will evolve toward more and more realism both in online porn and in real life. This is madness!
The articles of the treaty also expressly allows loopholes to make teenage child pornography and other teenage-sexualized materials legal in some countries if the children depicted have reached the age of consent for sex and voluntarily share such material for “private use” between those who share the images.
Nothing on the internet ever stays as "private use", nothing!
Speaking on behalf of seventeen Arab countries, Egypt said the provisions of the draft treaty “severely undermine the rights of children” and that they contradict the strict standards of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child for the protection of children.
“It is of paramount importance that a person regardless of age cannot consent to the dissemination of an intimate image that constitutes child sexual abuse or child sexual exploitation material,” he said.
The Egyptian delegate also emphasized that sovereign states had a right to criminalize all forms of pornography. He said the new treaty should not undermine the right of all states “to criminalize the publication of intimate images, whether with or without the consent of the parties involved, this is in an effort to preserve order and public morals.”
A representative of Australia said that “sharing intimate images between children of the same age may be better dealt with as a privacy issue rather than exposing children to the criminal justice process.” This position was supported by the European Union.
An Austrian delegate argued that the loopholes in the new framework were important “for law enforcement, medical purposes, for science… something that we hold very dearly is art,” to which a delegate of the Russian Federation retorted, “Can someone elaborate on where images or videos of children being sexually abused can be used for medical and scientific purposes?”
No kidding! Even Russia has a higher moral standard on this issue.
The Holy See delegation said it was “extremely concerned” with the changes the treaty was proposing to the international legal framework for the protection of children. “We think that this really allows for the production of simulated and artificially generated images,” the Holy See delegate said.
The seventeen Arab countries that opposed the new standards were Algeria, Bahrein, Egypt, Iraq, Jodan, Kuwait, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, UAE, and Yemen, Iran, Syria. The position of Egypt was also echoed by Pakistan, Indonesia, Paraguay, Nicaragua and several African delegations including Nigeria, Cameroon, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Zimbabwe, Benin, and Chad.
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