It scares me when I see how easy it is for some people to go from "I don't like something" to "It should be outlawed". When attitudes like that flourish, don't expect democracy and freedom to last very long.

Kevin, Apple Valley, MN

The greatest threat to people regardless of age is censorship and as dangers go, thought crimes are about as dangerous it gets in terms of law. Hence this article simple appears to be another Tavistock twister.

With censorship, if a member of government passing these laws was a practicing paedophile, how would we know? Someone might know this to be true and imagine themselves blowing up parliament, such thoughts are normal and a mind with healthy function has no problem in distinguishing the difference between thought and deed, reality from fiction.

D Stanley, Gourge, France

All the Second Lifers need do is: claim religious freedom- as "cyber-Muslims", where pedophilia is permitted by their "prophet" who "married" a 6 year old child.

Which shows the problem with allowing an unexamined creed into your culture and society.

The move to ban "generated" pedophilic imagery is a start.

Since it synthetically "normalizes" abusive and sick behavior, and is a temptation for real sex criminals to practice their crimes.

Literature is trickier, since something like "Lolita" has a claim to "redeeming social value" (and HH's story is told as a mental patient's case history, not a charming "February-December" love story).

What the desire is for people to avoid their real Life in order to construct a complex e-dream state (that comes free every night anyway) is worth a psychological study of its own.

Fromm wrote "Escape From Freedom".

This would be "Escape From Identity".

Edo Van Ede, Dordrecht, The Netherlands

So why can't they also stop the 'sniper' type games, the 'car chase' games? They all glorify illegal, harmful and anti-social behaviours. Surely murder is the highest category of crime? Start there & work through the others. Also, use the UN to make the servers internationally responsible for the 'acts' committed via the service they provide. Make it life imprisonment for the owners of the servers, all their assets seized, interpol to arrest them anywhere/everywhere, until that happens, it's just whistling in the wind!

mike, shenzhen, china

Ridiculous - every game released in the past decade involves some form of violence and usually killing. Obviously I am not in favor of pedophilia - however I don't believe it is reasonable to outlaw computer generated simulations of any crimes and certainly it is even less logical to say that we must not allow representations of rape if we simulataneously say there is nothing wrong with representing torture or mutilation.

James, Vista, CA