after a bruising Facebook battle with a well known journalist this morning, I scored a victory, albeit a sour one.

They posted a link to a series of funny family photos on a US website. All their facebook 'friends' chortled away but I was annoyed. I posted a private message to her that one of the pics..rather innocuous at first glance, under current laws... would be deemed as child porn and she was urging friends to view it.

She insulted me, laughed at me, called me a prude, a fool and ignorant.

An hour later a lawyer friend of hers posted the same message..voila ! the whole thread vanished.

However the crime remains : she (and she is a very well known hack writing for major publications)had urged numerous people to view child porn and they had done so.

and it can be that easy- in one minute you are a criminal.

30 years ago you acted as most of society did- indeed The Sun urged you every day to ogle teen girls private parts. Today you could lose your liberty for doing so.