BREAKING: US Wins UN Vote to Combat Child P*rn

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Note all the European countries who voted against condemning child p*rn.

UNITED NATIONS, November 21 (C-Fam) The U.S. won a key vote against child pornography and pedophilia in the General Assembly’s Third Committee today.

Sixty-eight nations sided with the United States and against the European Union in insisting that all forms of child pornography, including virtual child pornography and sexting must be prosecuted. The Trump administration said this was in line with an international treaty against child exploitation and child pornography supported by the U.S. government.

Europeans have been trying to legalize some forms of pedophilia like virtual child pornography, sex bots, and other materials that don’t involve real children. They are also in favor of blanket decriminalization of sexting by children, including sexting between kids and adults. But their position is not popular. Nations from many different regions overwhelmingly sided with the U.S. position. Only fifty-one nations sided with the European Union. Thirty abstained.

The vote took place when the U.S. proposed a hostile amendment to a resolution on technical cooperation on law enforcement against organized crime. The U.S. amendment added a focus against child pornography to ensure that all United Nations programs to protect children from sexual exploitation are in line with existing international law.

U.S. diplomats explained that the amendment was necessary to give the UN system “parameters” to combat child sexual exploitation that were in line with the “Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and Child Pornography,” an international treaty backed by the U.S. government for thirty years.

The European Union led the charge against the U.S. position. “The phrase (child pornography) is increasingly considered obsolete and potentially harmful,” said a representative of Denmark speaking on behalf of European Union member states. He said the phrase was therefore being replaced by “child sexual abuse material.” He explained that the “concept of pornography suggests a consensual practice between adults” and that this was unfair to children.

Europeans have systematically replaced the term “child pornography” with “sexual abuse material” in most UN resolutions beginning in 2017. The UN system has debated this repeatedly, as the Friday Fax has reported. Many times it seemed like a debate about semantics, until last year when the General Assembly adopted a new UN treaty on cybercrime. The treaty makes it plain that the substitution is designed to legalize some forms of pedophilia.

The new treaty completely replaced the term “child pornography” with “child sexual abuse material” consistent with what Europeans have been asking. But it also expressly allows for the production, dissemination and production of virtual child pornography and sexting. Making this explicit, helped the wider UN membership realize that the debate was always about legalizing virtual child pornography and creating a gray zone of sexual autonomy for children that many member states view as dangerous.

The Europeans justified legalizing virtual child pornography and sexting on the grounds that pedophiles should be able to satisfy their sexual tendencies through virtual material. They have also said that teenagers have a right to engage in sexting with adults if they chose, and that pornography is something good and should not be confused with materials produced as a result of child sexual abuse.

The previous U.S. government, under Joe Biden, supported the European approach of allowing virtual child porn. When the Trump administration changed the U.S. position in recent weeks, it found overwhelming support in the vote against the European approach. The consequences of the vote will be to require the UN system to cease and desist any efforts to legalize virtual child pornography and sexting, and stick to what was agreed in U.S. backed treaty against child sexual exploitation and child pornography.

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