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09 Dec 2008, 10:23 am

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i believe in freedom of speach and hate censorship, i also believe peadophiles don't deserve free eyecandy and naked children should be censored/covered up.


Most people who are going to look at that page are probably not paedophiles - they probably like the band that released the CD, and possibly have no idea that it has an album cover like that.
Secondly, as for 'paedophiles don't deserve free eyecandy' - what, so they should pay for child porn instead? Or sneak around finding terrible, illegal websites that are currently abusing/exploiting children? If a peadophile likes looking at that page, it's doing no harm. The album is old. The picture was taken a long time ago, and the damage done to the girl by taking it has been done. It doesn't matter who looks at it now.



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09 Dec 2008, 11:27 am

If its a CD cover then the damage has been done, the CD is in shops, if the cover is really that bad then it shouldnt have been put on the front of the CD in first place.

They should of at least just censored the image, as the technology they used to block the page could have very easily been used to censor the image.

f*****g idiots.



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09 Dec 2008, 5:52 pm

Not to mention that the image is probably thumbnail size, even on full-view. Kinda hard to erm, *unspeakable* to a small image.


And hey ho, whaddya know, my earlier post has been ignored.


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09 Dec 2008, 6:01 pm

There is a section on the controversy over that image in the Wikipedia article it apperars in. According to Francis Buchhold (the bands bassist) the model was either the daughter or niece of Steffan Bohle who designed the cover. The band's rhythm guitarist Rudolf Schenker said that they met her fifteen years later and she "had no problem with the cover." So, if it was the girls father or uncle who cast her for it, and the model herself is cool with it; why in anybody else complaining?


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10 Dec 2008, 7:40 am

NobelCynic wrote:
There is a section on the controversy over that image in the Wikipedia article it apperars in. According to Francis Buchhold (the bands bassist) the model was either the daughter or niece of Steffan Bohle who designed the cover. The band's rhythm guitarist Rudolf Schenker said that they met her fifteen years later and she "had no problem with the cover." So, if it was the girls father or uncle who cast her for it, and the model herself is cool with it; why in anybody else complaining?


if a twelve year old girl is 'in love' with a man in his late thirties is it alright for them to have a sexual relationship? no, the same as when a child is alright with being photographed in that nature.


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10 Dec 2008, 12:51 pm

familiar_stranger wrote:
NobelCynic wrote:
There is a section on the controversy over that image in the Wikipedia article it apperars in. According to Francis Buchhold (the bands bassist) the model was either the daughter or niece of Steffan Bohle who designed the cover. The band's rhythm guitarist Rudolf Schenker said that they met her fifteen years later and she "had no problem with the cover." So, if it was the girls father or uncle who cast her for it, and the model herself is cool with it; why in anybody else complaining?


if a twelve year old girl is 'in love' with a man in his late thirties is it alright for them to have a sexual relationship? no, the same as when a child is alright with being photographed in that nature.


I personally dont see the problem with that, actually.

Anywho, they uncensored the Wikipedia page! :)