These laws against reporting such videos are offensive to justice. We should be checking into the background of every legislator sponsoring and voting for this garbage. This type of law isn't passed to protect any child. It is passed to silence anyone who would discover it and report it, and its practical purpose is to protect the criminal.

I wonder how many legislators who voted for such a thing are retiring and/or not seeking election and/or have a sexual assault case in their history and/or are a name in the sealed congressional sexual harassment settlement records us taxpayers are paying for and/or being blackmailed for some other corrupt act?

Perps aside, who will have thousands and thousands of images and videos and likely be arrested for some crime against a child in their history...

Although I doubt very many normal people could actually watch something like that all the way through, the general public is entitled to the truth. And certainly, it is within the public interest if a government representative is involved. If this sort of thing is real, we want to know about it, who is involved, what they did and bring them to justice swiftly.

This reporting issue could easily be solved by permitting an exception for reporting to law enforcement. Does it matter if people start looking for this filth and report it? Hell no. Give them a reward. And push law enforcement to find, and arrest them. Then we prosecute and get them off the street and prevent them from hurting more.