Huw Edwards

No, some are Journalists, most are simply Newsreaders.

It's not brain surgery

Here's the post for example...

I've been lurking at the DS Forums and Tattle equivalents of this thread for my sins, Tattle is rather robust/informative and takes no bullshit+ there's a lot of CSA victims on that thread giving their two pence but DS Forums is rather softer on Huw Edwards.

Looking at the comment from Jurassic Mark claiming that Huw Edwards doesn't have a sexual interest in children...

AIBU to believe that Huw Edwards does have a sexual interest in children?

Which most of us also would be absolutely crap at tbf.

I think some people are getting the job of a newsreader confused with a presenting job on This Morning.

people like huw were about before the internet so please, explain to me how those people fell into it like its being implied poor old huw did? you dont. you dont just accidentally find it. its bullshit. those are real childrens lives being destroyed for sickos gratification. Somewhere out there, there are pictures like that of me, where i do not know, ill probably never know. you can sit there and try to analyse the human condition all you like but it does not EVER excuse the brutality of what people like him and his sicko partner in crime do to children and the life long pain they cause

Yes, they are.

When suspended it is with pay..

As for tv licensing money - Thisnis why so many including myself have started cancelling our TV licensing. I don’t watch anything that requires a licence,

Newsreaders are all journalists aren’t they?

This. Thank you. It’s absolutely ridiculous to say anything else. Everything is black or white to some people. He was excellent at his job.

Your ignorance of broadcast journalism is profound. The words aren’t written by others. Sometimes there is no script. There isn’t on the great state occasions. Creating a coherent and engaging narrative is a skill very few people have. As a pp said it’s awful that so many milestones in recent history are now tainted.

I despise the man, but most people couldn’t do the job he had as well. I also think most people understant that his job was not just to read words from an autocue. It’s a bit silly to believe that.

His job was to read words written by others from an autocue.

He pleaded guilty and will be sentenced by a judge without any involvement from a jury, so we can speculate as much as we like on any likely sentence without worrying about contempt of court.

Five or ten years ago he would likely have got around 12 months in prison for a first offence. So he would actually spend 6 months in prison and 6 months on licence.

But, since then, judges have been made aware of the lack of space in prisons and they are going much more for suspended sentences when it comes to "non-contact" offences.

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I can't believe the guy who distributed the pictures to HE got a suspended sentence 😮
WTAF

Well I can believe it.
It's the same in the jurisdiction I come from and live in.
Light sentencing for heinous crimes.
Those poor children.

That's not true at all these days, I'm afraid. One of the problems of the internet is that old images are hard to eradicate - there are indecent materials that have been in circulation since initially being created decades ago. The "dark web" stuff is newly created (ie current abuse), not decades old abuse - it's the latter that keeps popping up on the "normal" internet.

This organisation works quite hard to issue takedown notices for indecent materials of children on the internet, they are kept grimly busy:

www.iwf.org.uk/

Very much doubt it, the guy that distributed the pictures only got a suspended sentence. Whilst just about everyone is disgusted with this situation and what he has done, in crime terms it's not that serious. Up thread someone said that there are 800 cases like this a month!

@Doubleender that’s my point - legal stuff is becoming too tame because of how commonplace it is. You can share x rated content on Twitter and it won’t be deleted. People are becoming desensitised to it.

Naivety about how hard it would be to find illegal content is part of the problem.

Damn I hope so 🤞

People now have access to the most extreme forms of porn and CSA within clicks if they chose to. And for free.

I really dont think so. Theres a plethora of LEGAL filth a few clicks away but thankfully and rightly, you cant go finding illegal stuff unless you move in HEs circles.

@DysonSphere that’s a really great post!

For all the ‘he’s just a nonce we don’t need to ask why he did it’ you need to read the parts of DysonSphere’s post about porn.

People now have access to the most extreme forms of porn and CSA within clicks if they chose to. And for free.

Porn users are becoming desensitised to the acts they are witnessing and needing to access more and more extreme acts to get the kick they are chasing. It is warping brains into thinking extreme sexual acts are normal or acceptable. Reality TV has desensitised us to people we watch on screens being real people and instead they exist to be consumed as entertainment.

There are people who get off on how ‘wrong’ what they are viewing is, not because they are sexually interested in the content but because it’s a thrill they can’t get from ‘straight’ porn anymore because that’s so commonplace as to be boring now.

It used to be that men would buy a top shelf mag and teenage boys would get off on seeing boobs. Now phones and the access they give us to things that previously would have taken huge effort to find or were so unheard of as to be completely taboo, are eroding boundaries in quick time.

The person who supplied HE with CSA material like it was pictures of shoes, is 25. What has he been exposed to, to be so indifferent to the suffering he’s passing off as wank fodder, at that age. With a 12 month suspended sentence, he isn’t going to see the error of his ways, he’ll just get better at covering his tracks. Some form of regulation might have stopped him accessing content at a young age that set him on the path he’s now on and likely will never get off.

We have a huge issue with what unfettered access to sexual content and the normalisation of extreme acts is doing to us as a society.

I think many people on here think HE did much more than he did.

Many people on here don’t think any such thing. They know that what HE did was already bad enough. No need for ‘much more’.