Syd's depth of knowledge about SVU cases is new to me, but I've been marathoning through the entire fucking series over the last several weeks; I just reached season 8 the other day! Er, so, hopefully soon enough i will know as much as Syd does

Also I'm not too sure on the specifics of law, but SVU told me that someone who uses speech (or writing) that knowingly instructs someone on how to commit a crime, who knows the person reading it will use that information to commit a crime, can be charged as an accessory to said crime, or for facilitating the crime. The SVU episode I'm thinking of is one where a pedophile is bombarded with emails from a porn site that uses technology to digitally alter their models to make them look younger. One of the things on their site was a story with photographs called The Story Of Janet, where Janet is kidnapped and raped; the story reads like a how-to on said kidnapping and rape. Anyway, the pedophile eventually gives in, subscribes to the porn site, reads The Story Of Janet, and then goes out and does exactly what the story says. The porn company's owner is then put on trial for facilitating kidnapping, rape, and murder.

There's a lot of arguing in the episode about free speech, and while I do agree that free speech is incredibly important, I think protecting someone's right to publish information on how to be a better pedophile is a bit much. Wasn't the initial point behind free speech to allow people to speak their mind without the government throwing them in jail for dissenting? I think disagreeing with the government and instructing people on pedophilia are in two different categories entirely, and I'm not sure the latter is fair game.