SALON: Perez Hilton has built a thriving career out of offensive behavior: He’s called countless female celebrities bitches, hos, whores and sluts, and covered their faces in jizz using Microsoft Paint. But these things merely violate good taste — not federal child porn law that carries a mandatory sentence of 15 years. The same cannot be said for his latest shocker: tweeting a link to an alleged upskirt photo of a pantyless 17-year-old Miley Cyrus. The facts as we know them: On Sunday, Hilton’s Twitter account sent out the following message: “If you are easily offended, do NOT click here http://i46.tinypic.com/2rze4pv.jpg Oh, Miley! Warning: truly not for the easily offended!” The photo in question has since been yanked down, but the image is allegedly of Cyrus climbing out of a car wearing a dress and no underwear (according to EarSucker.com, this is a censored version of the image in question). Now, Hilton has posted upskirt shots before of Britney Spears — but Cyrus is roughly five months short of her 18th birthday. She’s still a minor and it’s legally considered child pornography. Jeffrey Douglas, a Los 
Angeles criminal defense attorney who specializes in child pornography cases, told Salon that Hilton’s liability is “extraordinary and intense” and that it was “suicidal for him to do this.” MORE
MTV: The public reaction to Hilton posting the photo — which he later removed — was fierce and quick. Hilton defended himself via a video he posted on his website, claiming the photo didn’t show what everyone thought it did. “Miley was clearly wearing underwear,” Hilton says in the video. “Do you think Miley is that stupid to be out in public without panties?” Hilton claimed he only posted the photo to make light of the fact that the teen pop queen was getting out of the car in “a very un-ladylike fashion.” “Sure, I like to be controversial,” he said. “But I don’t want to go to jail.” MORE