I wrote:
Google indicates that the book "Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography on the Internet" describes Libertarians as being active on pedophile forums on the net.
No, it doesn't. It merely says on page 97 that the Internet has a 'libertarian ethos', and that unnamed 'other Internet users' imposed a fierce reaction after the manager of a small California ISP discovered in 1998 a child porn Web site, reported that site to legal authorites, and investigated in an attempt to discover more information about the site's operators.
For thoroughness: In addition to the page 97, reference, the word 'libertarian' also occurs on 10 _other_ pages in this book, which we will now go through individually: Page 4: Many other forms of deviant behavior have their reputable defenders or at least libertarians who assert that these activities should not be severely penalized: drug use has its defenders, as do exhibitionism, public sex, and even bestiatiy. For child pornography, however, there is no such tolerance.... Page 9: [The author, speaking of himself as someone raising the problem of child porn:] This is a curious position for someone who defines himself as a libertarian, who fits poorly into most existing schemes of political affiliations. As a general principle, I believe that criminal law should be kept as far removed as possible from issues of personal morality.... Page 35: Contrary to public impression, "obscenity" is and always has been illegal in the United States, but in order to be prohibited, material has to be truly obscene rather than merely indecent, and this fact is difficult to prove in court. At least since the libertarian Supreme Court decisions of the 1950s, nudity per se rarely made a picture obscene where adult subjects were.... Page 121: [Speaking of 'pedo boards':] The boards regularly feature lengthy discussion about the ethics of the traffic, in which participants generally assert a libertarian value system Page 122: The politicization of the subculture should not be exaggerated, since the long discussions are often interrupted by protests from those simply demanding more URLs, more dirty pictures, and rejecting the philosophizing as irrelevant to the real nature of the board. Yet ethical and political themes do surface very frequently and usually remain within a broad libertarian context. Feminism is particular castigated for its role in demanding anti-pornography laws and creating a climate of puritanism.... Page 123: Sometimes, political ideologies expressed go much further than mere libertarianism to a kind of right-wing anarchism, which rejects both police authoritarianism and the various manifestations of political correctness.... Page 137: Whenever this photo set appears, as it does regularly, some commentators will invariably denounce it as sick and contrary to the whole libertarian purpose of the boards.... Page 157: In theory, the combined efforts of the FBI, NSA, GTAC, and alied units should be able to detect most illicit porn traffic on the Web, in a stunning example of global law enforcement cooperation. In addition to alarming civil libertarians, these developments sparked panic on the pedo boards: pornographers are well aware of the new ice age in which they operate and of the dangers of intensified international police cooperation.... Page 191: An international desire to curb child exploitation overseas has led to new legal devices in Europe itself, including countries that once had been regarded as libertarian havens.... Page 252: [footnote:] ...-ing, "New Encryption Rules Lave Civil Libertarians Unhappy", NYI, January 18, 2000.... Not a single one of these in any way concerns the Libertarian Party.