This is long breeders so I'm post in non-boyalley-yellow for a minutes:
Well, I used to consult for the FBI and other organizations in cases involving hackers / online fraud. I'm seeing a very similar pattern here:
At first, the FBI would handle all cases of cybercrime, or crimes involving computer systems. Eventually, after they got a feel for the landscape, they started giving HUGE grants to local LEO for training, equipment, and software, to enable them to handle cybercrime cases. I see more and more police departments handling cybercrimes now as a result.
If the DOJ gets serious about 2257, I think you'll see the same thing happen with these inspections. Grants and training for local LEO to do inspections as authorized agents of the Attorney General.
Many suspect, and I think they're not far off, that the people in Innocent Images at the FBI know damn well how useless and ineffective these 2257 laws are, and how they're a massive waste of resources that they could be using to go after the real criminals: the sick fucks abusing children and creating CP.
If that holds true, then once the administration changes, priorities will as well (they'll decide to go after the CP bastards and leave mainstream adult alone), and we probably won't see any more inspections.
Either way, the laws are on the books, they're now WAY more clearly defined, we no longer have case law protecting us, and anyone in the USA who posts explicit imagery without proper docs will be playing a game of Russian Roulette with their freedom.
Certainly not the position that I would want to be in.
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