Iraq-corpse Web site operator held for obscenity (5)

1 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-10-09 16:01 ID:QIUW0zaS

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-10-08T181810Z_01_YUE865834_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-USA-PHOTOS.xml&archived=False
"MIAMI (Reuters) - The American operator of a Web site which posted grisly pictures of people killed in the Iraq and Afghan conflicts was arrested on obscenity charges unrelated to the war photos, police officials in Florida said.

The Polk County sheriff's office said Christopher Michael Wilson was arrested on Friday and faces one count of wholesale distribution of obscene material and 300 misdemeanor charges relating to the Web site and pornographic photos."

""In my 33 years of law enforcement experience, this is one of the most horrific examples of filthy, obscene materials we have ever seized," Sheriff Grady Judd said in a statement. He did not elaborate."

2 Name: 404 - Name Not Found 2005-10-09 20:35 ID:Heaven

Internet Culture?

3 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-10-09 22:35 ID:Heaven

"Internet Culture @4-ch

With several billion webpages the internet is well, a good place to talk about the internet and the people that use, abuse and lurk on it."

4 Name: 404 - Name Not Found 2005-10-12 21:21 ID:uacdE82U

Well, wait a minute, didn't NBC and CBS show corpses on the 6 o'clock news in the 1970's?

It's just because it "undermines support for the war", I think.

5 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-10-12 22:50 ID:OUa00he6

>It's just because it "undermines support for the war", I think.

Yeah.
"[Polk County Sheriff] Judd says that he conferred with Army investigators before the man was arrested, but says that none of the obscenity charges has anything to do with the Army’s interest in the case. Wilson’s lawyer disagrees saying that there are thousands of websites with explicit material and that the U.S. military had the most to gain through Wilson’s prosecution."
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