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You know what? Fuck everyone who downvoted me, and guess what? Tell lemmy.ca’s admins to change their fucking password, because I know where you live and I’m going to murder both of you. You are the ones putting actual kids in danger, not me.

I think that was based on an actual survivor’s experiences, so yeah.

Then go fucking die. People like you are what’s wrong with this fucking witch hunt.

If I’m remembering his story right… I can’t help but think he was framed. It’s too convenient that they investigate him for online piracy and leaking government documents and only then find CSAM on his computer, which somehow they never actually manage to charge him for?

Or am I misremembering? Sorry, I’m really getting sick of dealing with the razor’s edge of “free speech vs. kid’s safety”.

How about no. Look up on wikipedia what countries have ruled fictional CP is legal, but CSAM with actual children is as illegal as here. Then check the level of technological development, financial development and political stability of them. Not seeing a pattern? Then check the number of sexual assaults in those countries compared to countries of similar development levels. Now check the number of sexual assaults across ALL ages and genders in countries where all pornography is illegal.

Now, I’m not going to make any absolute claims. All I know is that actual psychologists have spoken out about the line between harmless (as in, would never consider harming a child) pedophiles and people who would be rapists even if they weren’t sexualizing kids, and 15 year olds have spent time in a prison for age-of-majority sexual offenders because some asshole pedo creep with hacking skills used the teenage boy’s computer as remote storage for CSAM material and the teen was arrested for someone else’s crime.

I get why this is a controversial topic. I hate people who harm kids too. Just realize that laws meant to “protect kids” can end up harming kids (not to mention adults who are not guilty of crimes) or even fail to recognize that people hurting kids goes way beyond pedophile sickos and non-sexual violence against kids has itself become a serious problem yet is not being acknowledged.

The laws as they are need to start taking a more generalist view of this, because when pastors can get away with this disgusting behavior and judges can send a completely innocent 10 year old to juvie for a $500 kickback and not even flinch when the boy commits suicide, or a judge even sending an autistic boy who killed someone to the death penalty instead of accepting the insanity plea?

It says we (adults in general) don’t really care about children, only looking like we do.

You know those horror stories about kids being tricked or kidnapped and put in some twisted social experiment? That actually happened. Normally I’d say fuck the rich but in this case it would be in more than just bad taste; in the southern states there was a “school” where rich families were “sending” their kids to. Why? Some were spoiled brats that were making their family name look bad to their rich parents’ rich friends, others were “too soft” and the bastard and bitch who raised them wanted to “toughen them up”.

The place was straight out of something like those edgy novels that teenagers read but, well, real. There was emotional and social manipulation up to and including gas lighting, they drugged the kids to keep them from escaping, and yes, there was rape. If the place had been discovered recently rather than being shut down years ago, I would be demanding some level of legal autonomy for children because it’s gotten to the point where kids can’t trust anyone to protect them from forced confinement and cruelty.

I would know, I was illegally taken from my family at age 10 by government officials and it took my parents two years of fighting in court to get me back. There’s a difference between grounding a kid or preventing them from going to a cherished event because they screwed up, and being cruel because you can get away with it or being homophobic towards someone who depends on you for survival.

That’s why I’m not going anywhere near that building but urge parents to show up to actually defend their kids, from the conservative lunatics. I’m strange, immature and overprotective of kids, but I recognize that this isn’t my fight, and I’m not a creep.

I know I’m just one person, but since 2017 I’ve come to the terrifying conclusion that some people will look for any excuse they can to discredit people who disagree with the group consensus (in this case, disagreeing with all the multiple consensus clusters of the various political extremes and of short-sighted “extreme centrism”) and that on the surface and combined with my digital footprint of being “confrontational” (long story, but a quack psychiatrist ruined my life), a person who would want to sabotage my life could easily paint me as some sicko instead of someone with Autism who genuinely wishes the best for kids because I had my childhood disrupted by people who tore me away from my family at age 10.

I would, but I can’t can’t act like a(n emotionally considerate) 10 year old like I want to in real life. Yes, I know it’s weird, but no, I still feel rage at CSAM and am asexual.

That said, if you won’t try in real life… Well, the body can’t gave a social life without the mind. If the real world isn’t enough for some reason, learning to socialize in VR might ease the fear by providing comfort, just make sure your expensive goggles were worth it and actually say hi!

Dogs don’t eat grass, they swallow it to refresh their gut microbiome and then regurgitate it or pass it undigested.

Halloween and Soup = Confirmed(?)

As much as I am sick of vegans being high and mighty and demanding we not eat meat when not eating meat has been scientifically proven to reduce your health due to protein starvation…

I want to cuddle a cow. We shouldn’t have to eat meat, but we do have to because we evolved to require it over 12k years ago and nature is cruel like that. At the very least ungulate livestock deserve the recognition of being alive and having feelings, even if consuming flesh is inevitable.

Also I will never eat veal or lamb. Seriously, don’t tear a calf from it’s mother if you’re hungry.

Depends. Growing children will literally starve to death without protein, especially between weaning and early childhood. If you do sports, protein can be absolutely critical.

Also, as cute as animals are, don’t kid yourselves; if we don’t eat that cow, another omnivore or a carnivore will. Sadly nature knows that innocent baby animals (including human babies) are squishy, soft and delicious, and wild predatory animals do not hesitate to eat the weak despite how horrifying we find it.

The reason I say so is, well, just in case you get a pet and need to know it’s diet. A rabbit is alright with eating just leaves and fruit, while dogs, cats and ferrets are obligate carnivores and at least need meat-derived pet kibble in their diet to live.

While I can’t speak on her behalf, I wonder if Mahsa would have appreciated your generalization the way you seem to think she would. Getting murdered by a witch hunting brigade doesn’t mean you don’t believe in something supernatural, and regardless of the truth of reality, I wouldn’t want someone putting words in my mouth when I’m too dead to correct them.

Speaking about metaphorical fornication, does anyone else think r/HumanPorn should have been named “r/FeelsPorn” or something?

If that’s the case, I’ll probably be sticking around! I’m not fond of having the possibility of CSAM but unlike a lot of lawmakers I see the logical difference between photos and videos (disgusting abuse) versus artificial images (artwork with no basis in reality) and know there are developed and functional nations where the former is absolutely illegal but the latter is not (just FYI, best examples are Japan and Colombia, and I’ve been to the latter personally) and the instances of both filmed CSAM and IRL sexual assault have gone down in both since the relevant laws were passed.

I get the squick, I’m asexual and very protective of children, I just know that someone directed me to the evidence (multiple websites with reseach articles about the psychology of pedophilia including Wikipedia pages) and while filming real kids being forced into that is evil, I cannot ignore the psychological evidence that even regular, consenting adult porn is illegal in India and China yet rape and sexual assault in those countries are higher than the average per population in the US, Australia, Germany, etc. If a fictional portrayal keeps real people safe, we can’t afford to unquestioningly believe big media when news networks provide information. I’ve seen cops mention “it encourages the sickos” on live TV news but the evidence isn’t completely backing that up, so I decided the only moral solution is to allow people to exist in privacy instead of witch-hunting.

Aside from that, sickos aren’t the main worry for parents when it comes to kidnapping; Divorces where the one parent can’t handle losing visitation are common, and sad and horrifying as it is a lot of kidnappers are looking to sell their targets into slavery in another country, not make videos that could be traced back to the criminals.

By all means try to remove CSAM of real children, because how would you feel if you were the child who had been abused to make it? How would you feel if that child was someone you know? If someone is being directly hurt then they’re being directly hurt. My problem with almost the entire internet is that if someone is being indirectly hurt, that’s like an SJW saying an Irish immigrant is guilty of racism against African-Americans just for being white-skinned, or an Alt-Right Conservative politician saying a transvestite or homosexual is automatically a sexual offender.

I’ll leave it on this note. I tried to look up an episode of an old kid’s cartoon from the 90s called Bobby’s World on Start page. Safe Search was absolutely on. Apparently the made up word I misremembered as the episode title, “Kidzilla”, somehow triggers this: stopitnow.org

No search results, just loads up that site whenever a search contains that word. That is some serious 1984 thoughtcrime bullshit. If having uncomfortable content is the price I pay for having an uncensored internet, I’ll fight in a court to say “enough is enough, you (politicians) don’t have the right to e-police everyone 24/7/365 just to pretend you aren’t terrible people, and peer-to-peer services NEED to be designed as uncensorable platforms, fix this oversight because if I have to run 12 commands to delete one image then I’m only running it to protect REAL children, not a collection of pixels or words created entirely from scratch by some poor artist with a disturbing but not necessarily harmful kink”.

Now, if you DO put actual photos, video or audio of CSAM on my planned Lemmy server, I won’t just report that shit to the police, I’ll tell the cops “better find this bastard before I do because I’ll f-ing murder him for what he’s directly and purposefully supporting something that - despite my disagreement with the current boundaries of legality - is on the wrong side of even the line I feel should be drawn”.

Seriously, people, we’re talking about protecting free speech here becuase we’re trying to protect kids from harm, not to escape justice; Big Brother is a creep who watches your children with a predatory gaze too, after all.

We’ve built several over the years. There are Libraries of Babel (wikis) within the Library of Babel (the internet). Alexandria burned, and the Incan accounting system is mostly lost, but they existed.

That said, the pun is a bit misleading. Big libraries are not bad things or “unholy pride” IMO. On the contrary, if god as described by religion hated science, or learning, why is godlike knowledge called “omni_science_”?

Babel. Bible. The many languages of the world probably didn’t start with a tower, but if I was looking for a monument to hubris, it wouldn’t be a library. It would be a temple, whether a literal church that fleeces its followers, or an actual monument to excess and inequality like Burj Khalifa. (Nothing against you if you live in Saudi Arabia, but please stop building skyscrapers out of sea sand and drinkable water in the middle of a desert? Dubai is not a city, it’s an architectural testing ground at best.)

Language is a strange thing. Unfortunately, it’s easy to be misled by people cherry-picking words from a book. Obviously that applies to me too, so feel free to double-check all this.

Sounds awesome, actually. Like the jack-in cables for PETs in MegaMan Battle Network finally coming into existence. That I can see maybe requiring regulation to a degree, because its functional and potentially dysfunctional.

I meant that your sarcasm about mandating colors is absolutely right, there’s a certain point where you’re not regulating corporate greed but removing freedom of speech. Art and money are strange bedfellows but expression of self is more likely to win against a pointless moneymaking machine than an ideology of conformist nationalism.

Like over the ear headphones

I think they make USB-C over the ear headphones. Admittedly I’ve used bluetooth since before iPhones had it built-in so I’m clueless about wired over-ear USB-C headphones specifically.

Winter Summer is Coming.

I miss r/AngryUpvote… I appreciate the EU forcing big tech to do things that should be done but are “less profitable”, but I got to admit there’s limits to what a government should and shouldn’t regulate.

I hated that show the moment I was explained what it was. If I wanted to discuss politics, I’d live in the real world, because at least real politics actually matter. Why the hell would I think child murder, incest and ignoring the dangers of climate change is entertaining?!