Rick Falkvinge: Why free speech is harmed by the ban on child porn
When I lived in Houston and was buying a house I used a website to look up sex offenders in the neighborhood.<p>I remember seeing one guy who was in the sex offender database because when he was 19, he had sex with a 17 year old. It made me feel a little uncomfortable. It struck me because I was in my mid 20s and I think we were around the same age at the time.<p>Something is amiss in a system that punishes him for life and places him alongside men in their 40s convicted for touching toddlers.