<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WhyNotHugo</author><text>In some US states you can&amp;#x27;t buy porn until you&amp;#x27;re 21 years old, but you can ACT in porn as of 18.&lt;p&gt;Laws are far from being logical or always making sense.</text><parent_chain><item><author>randomchars</author><text>&amp;gt; What if a 15 year old Dane sends a dick pick to a 17 year old girl in France? Is she a child pornographer?&lt;p&gt;In some countries, you can have sex at 14, but only do sexting at 18. Total mindfuck.</text></item><item><author>noduerme</author><text>This assault on privacy is premised on a very flimsy concern over CP, which is a problem but is absolutely no reason (just as terrorism isn&amp;#x27;t) to deprive citizens of their rights. I&amp;#x27;m just curious - first of all, what happened to the large amount of child pornography and the industry around it that existed in Denmark throughout the 1970s? The pendulum certainly swings both ways, but it&amp;#x27;s strange and interesting that the fact that it was legal to &lt;i&gt;produce&lt;/i&gt; CP in swathes of Europe has simply been swept under the rug. I&amp;#x27;d assume those images and films are now hashed and searched for, but I&amp;#x27;d also assume there are hard copies of them laying around in a plurality of Danish households. How do you prosecute possession of something that was legal at the time?
Secondly, just to keep using liberal ol&amp;#x27; Denmark as an example, since the legal age of consent there is &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; 15 years old, how do you &amp;quot;harmonize&amp;quot; spying on adults there with spying on minors in the rest of Europe? It&amp;#x27;s okay to read every 15 year old&amp;#x27;s text messages and look at their photos because it might be illegal in some other country? What if a 15 year old Dane sends a dick pick to a 17 year old girl in France? Is she a child pornographer?&lt;p&gt;Sexual assault is one thing, but it&amp;#x27;s worth taking a minute to realize how arbitrary and ridiculous some of these laws are before you start throwing children into jail for texting... let alone stripping away basic civil liberties on the basis of &amp;quot;some people are bad so we can&amp;#x27;t have nice things.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New EU Law Removes Digital Privacy</title><url>https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>A_non_e-moose</author><text>Reminds me of the kinder egg VS AR15 ownership thing in the US</text><parent_chain><item><author>randomchars</author><text>&amp;gt; What if a 15 year old Dane sends a dick pick to a 17 year old girl in France? Is she a child pornographer?&lt;p&gt;In some countries, you can have sex at 14, but only do sexting at 18. Total mindfuck.</text></item><item><author>noduerme</author><text>This assault on privacy is premised on a very flimsy concern over CP, which is a problem but is absolutely no reason (just as terrorism isn&amp;#x27;t) to deprive citizens of their rights. I&amp;#x27;m just curious - first of all, what happened to the large amount of child pornography and the industry around it that existed in Denmark throughout the 1970s? The pendulum certainly swings both ways, but it&amp;#x27;s strange and interesting that the fact that it was legal to &lt;i&gt;produce&lt;/i&gt; CP in swathes of Europe has simply been swept under the rug. I&amp;#x27;d assume those images and films are now hashed and searched for, but I&amp;#x27;d also assume there are hard copies of them laying around in a plurality of Danish households. How do you prosecute possession of something that was legal at the time?
Secondly, just to keep using liberal ol&amp;#x27; Denmark as an example, since the legal age of consent there is &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; 15 years old, how do you &amp;quot;harmonize&amp;quot; spying on adults there with spying on minors in the rest of Europe? It&amp;#x27;s okay to read every 15 year old&amp;#x27;s text messages and look at their photos because it might be illegal in some other country? What if a 15 year old Dane sends a dick pick to a 17 year old girl in France? Is she a child pornographer?&lt;p&gt;Sexual assault is one thing, but it&amp;#x27;s worth taking a minute to realize how arbitrary and ridiculous some of these laws are before you start throwing children into jail for texting... let alone stripping away basic civil liberties on the basis of &amp;quot;some people are bad so we can&amp;#x27;t have nice things.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New EU Law Removes Digital Privacy</title><url>https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/</url></story>