Biden/Europeans Argue Protection of Virtual Pedophile Smut
by Stefano Gennarini JD, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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