Here's an amusing little
story. A fellow was trading porn for gory Iraq pictures, and was shut down on obscenity charges for the porn.
April 22 (AP) -- A man who ran a pornographic Web site that included photographs of war dead taken by American troops was sentenced on Friday to five years' probation, his lawyer said.
Mr. Wilson's Web site gave service members free access to pornography in exchange for posting pictures from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Polk County sheriff's officials said his arrest in October stemmed from the site's sexually explicit content, not the pictures of war dead.
Now we all know how prevalent porn is on the net, so this strikes me as a fairly obvious attempt to shut down information flow about the war(s) through intimidation.
Some of the stuff on his site, according to
eastbayexpress
At Wilson's Web site, you can see an Arab man's face sliced off and placed in a bowl filled with blood. Another man's head, his face crusted with dried blood and powder burns, lies on a bed of gravel. A man in a leather coat who apparently tried to run a military checkpoint lies slumped in the driver's seat of a car, his head obliterated by gunfire, the flaps of skin from his neck blooming open like rose petals. Six men in beige fatigues, identified as US Marines, laugh and smile for the camera while pointing at a burned, charcoal-black corpse lying at their feet.
The captions that accompany these images, which were apparently written by soldiers who posted them, laugh and gloat over the bodies. The person who posted a picture of a corpse lying in a pool of his own brains and entrails wrote, "What every Iraqi should look like." The photograph of a corpse whose jaw has apparently rotted away, leaving a gaping set of upper teeth, bears the caption "bad day for this dude." One person posted three photographs of corpses lying in the street and titled his collection "DIE HAJI DIE."
In the face this apparent misbehavior, the legal prosecution is for ... porn?