Nintendo fires treehouse member Alison Rapp

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SpokenTruth said:

Valdath said:

Wow someone is actually defending freaks who own child pornography?

This is too much.

People who own CP should spent their lives in jail, they aren't normal and shouldn't be allowed to live in a free society with the rest of us.

People who produce CP should simply be killed.

Apparently her support was actually about wanting the authorities to go after the people that create and distribute child porn rather than those that download it.  It's a somewhat valid stance but she did a very poor job providing that message.

Yes and no.   The problem with child porn (among many, many other things) is those who download it, are in fact, encouraging its creation.  They are supporting the industry by driving the supply/demand.  So, to say that those who view CP should be left alone, I think is mistaken and stupid (and also not something someone working for Nintendo should be saying).  But, that's my opinion, I don't necessarily think she should be fired for it, I just think it's a morally indefensible position.  Are people who make the content infinitely worse?  Absolutely.  But, that content isn't made without people wanting it.  And just keep it firmly in mind that, every bit of CP, by our legal standards, is an act of rape, since a child cannot given consent.