Hyper-frantic about sex? Sex panic? NAH! Serious business... Did you know that one of the main candidates in the presidential race (true story) argued before the TX Supreme court that using a dildo is a sex crime likening it to hiring a prostitute which is a sex crime and therefore dildos should also be considered illegal sex and also against the law. You know sort of like peeing on your truck tire in public (or brushing up against someone in an over crowed subway is a sec=x crime?) (like being one of those sexting kids who take a 'selfie' of their under-age selves (production of CP) and sends their own picture to another kid (distribution of CP) As a means of swelling the Registry no doubt? Another indication of the hyper-stupidity of sex-phobic politicians obsessed with sex,. Under 'normal' circumstances their idiocy should be the butt of jokes but the consequences of being arrested for one of these ludicrous 'sex crimes" is deadly serious. (I'd end this comment with a big " LOL"but the reality jest tain't very funny.)

Yes - of course we are hyper-frantic and it is based on lies and fear mongering. As we have discussed in the past - sex crimes are the new war on drugs. When the war on drugs was in it's hey day everyone thought that there were drug dealers lurking behind every bush ready to force drugs down our throats

and on the topic of hyper-frantic in computer-crime cases ...there is Mathew (not a computer CP case but has some pertinant things about laws which allow hyper-frantic prosecutors to define almost anything as a 'crime'
"general prosecutorial intransigence. I think it’s just as likely that the prosecutors just didn’t care for Keys’ attitude. Keys has publicly criticized the case against him and the merits of the law under which he was charged—something prosecutors really don’t like defendants doiing. In his sentencing memorandum, Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew D. Segal lambasted Keys’ “outsized, narcissistic sense of specialness” and readiness to defend himself in public. “It is exceptionally rare to see a defendant engage in an after-verdict press campaign to undermine public confidence in the jury’s verdict,” Segal wrote. “It is a direct attack on the work of the jury and the validity of the verdicts. It undermines respect for law at a time when the public seems more willing to credit strongly worded criticism of traditional institutions.” That’s nonsense. Bad, vague statutes that empower misguided, retributive prosecutions do more to undermine respect for the law than anything Matthew Keys has ever said or written." link to the full story is below.
But I believe the same reasoning is applicable to most 'computer crimes" Many charges are filed or not filed depending upon whose sensibilities (or prejudices) are "offended."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/04/13/matthew_keys_will_serve_two_years_for_something_that_was_barely_a_crime.html

I don't think it is based on fear mongering and lies, it is based on stupidity and ignorance. Look at all the lawsuits. Common sense is all that is needed, but there is none. People sue for things that should have been common sense. I don't expect people to become smarter any time soon.

Well, "fear mongering and lies" grow well in the hothouse provided by " stupidity and ignorance" I would proscribe the Red Queen's solution (off with their heads!) but haters already refuse to use their heads! (That's my 'superior intellectual evaluation' of all that's wrong with haters. based on my official certification as a hater- evaluator So...lets make them against the law and send them all to adult prison...once a hater always a hater...don't you think? They probably deserve Civil Commitment after that because I personally think they are more than a little crazy-dangerous, don't you?.) Now...That's Justice in this Alice in Wonder-land world.