Judge Alex Kozinski isn't a pervert

I've done a fair amount of IT work. That means I get into a lot of people's computers. Even when I'm not doing IT work, I'm working with people who like to forward blond jokes, silly pictures, and juvenile flash animations. ...but when doing IT work, I often see people's folders where they save all that nonsense.

I don't care for the raunchy or slapstick jokes that are usually included, but I know they are extremely common and mostly harmless.

So when I hear about Judge Alex Kozinski having a website full of pornography, but they start describing it as "guess who is the transvestite" flash animations and "bush for president" joke pictures showing womens pubic area, it sounded like people over-reacting.

This guy isn't a pervert running a porn site, he's just a regular guy who gets a lot of dumb email-forwards. I just read that Lawrence Lessig seems to feel the same way. ...especially since a lot of the forwards apparently weren't even to him (it was a shared folder with others).

The media just isn't reliable enough or knowledgeable enough to accurately report on this stuff. I'm not sure we can trust the blogosphere much more than the news stations, of course.

I like Cory Doctorow's comment on it:

But I also wonder if all the MySpace/Digg/Fark users in the world will give the judge a knowing wink, and we can all finally stop being hypocrites?