Laws on child pornography?

Question

Me and my friend were having a discussion, we wanted to know if you can get arrested for accidentally stumbling upon child p**n. Also, what if you ended up watching a video on the internet with a perfectly normal title and it ended up being child p**n? Will the police come bursting through our door?

Also, do you really get monitored and watched online? Does simply typing in "child p**n" in a search engine for any website of any kind get marked and get you in trouble? O__o

T__T I don't want to get in trouble for something I never did. I'm not even 18 yet! I myself am still a kid.

Answer 1

I've NEVER stumbled upon child p**n.  That is sick who would even want to google that ish, If they do they deserve to go to jail.

Answer 2

i think it has to be on your hard drive, DVD, etc for you to be arrested, so if you accidentally stumbled upon it i would think you wouldn't be in any trouble.

As for typing child p**n into search engines, i don't know if they can monitor that, its confidential unless your ISP shows the police/whoever your log or the search engine shows the police/whoever their log.

I don't believe that many search engines would care much about it if you did just type child p**n anyway, you could just be interested in who has been caught lately for having child p**n.

So yeah i think you are safe unless you have child p**n on your hard drive, dvd or anywhere else, own a site with child p**n on it, or you searched something really typical of a petophial, like... i don't know, use your imagination.

Answer 3

No the police will not come barging in your door.

some sites may flag some IP addresses to see if theyre constantly searching for or posting child p**n.

since it is illegal, i doubt youd find much of it on the internet anyway.

most of the time child p**n is found when someone takes their computer to be fixed at a shop and the person fixing the computer finds the child p**n on the computer and reports it to the police.