Borders Conference - Rethinking the Line: The Canada-U.S. Border / Child Pornography on the Internet Session
Appendix III: Presentation Materials – Max Taylor (continued)
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Move to abstinence
- Feels he's resolved problems by becoming sexually abstinent
- Substituted other high rate behaviours
- Move from high level sexual activity to none
- Still justifying:
“maybe I was acting out more honestly what a lot of men secretly desire”
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Conclusion
- Emergence of behaviour not previously part of repertoire and ability to access and use material
- Community that normalised and reinforced behaviour
- Disassociation of images from real children
- Importance of issues of control
- Changing persona
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The context - Virtual Communities
- Adults with sexual interest in children constitute a 'virtual' community on the Internet
- Evidence - plethora of supportive material
- COPINE project explored this through text analysis of Bulletin Board postings
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FGB Board (The Professor's Board)
- Been in existence for number of years
- Located in Japan
- Major source of information on postings, security advice, etc.
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Analysis
- What sense is there of a virtual community?
- How do members legitimise identities and activities
- How can this contribute to understanding dangerousness
- 'insider accounts' located within complex relational and interactional contexts
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Analysis
- 120 hours interaction with Board
- Discourse Analysis of text
Slide 77
Virtual Community?
2 patterns emerge from data supporting notion of 'virtual community':
- evidence of group dynamics
- concern with status and apprenticeship
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Group Dynamics
- Differing member status
- Protection of themselves and board from infiltrators - Security
Slide 79
Member status
Icarus - All the regs are gone. All here is left is “wannabe members of Pu even I have never posted anything”
. Board is full of newbies who don't know anything and certainly will not post anything. I've been around 1, years and seems that this is the end of this board. Only technical chat, newbies and spammers left…
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Member status
Sleeper > icarus Abit harsh don't you think? There's Always Hope. And there are Still “Wise Ones” from the Past Here (different nicks) if you would look > take care
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Member Status
Members are valued on basis of:
- frequency and quality of 'on topic' postings
- technical or security expertise
- length of time involved with Board
Slide 82
Security
Gandalf: If I post the URL to a site here using a proxy server what likelihood is there of the cops requesting the logs of a company in the Far East or a European university to see who I really am?! The site I put up I did at an Internet café so even if the proxy-stuff fails nobody could prove it was me…
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Security
Pirra8> I… feel that the fact we don't post much is because we have a lot of diligent 'observers' that watch what we put up, and quickly tell the servers to pull the site. Its tough spending 2-5 hours posting, only to have it pulled in 10 minutes. What is the solution?… Do we need a secret “club” that will allow you to get files?
Slide 84
Security
(continued ) …News is very easy to post and download from. Maybe we should concentrate on using news, and leave web sites to go to h*ell? This board can still be useful in that case. But, a revision of policy has to be done gradually. I really see no alternative.
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