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The chief function of these laws is to allow federal agencies who don't like you to fill your devices with CSAM and then pile on charges. It's never been about protecting kids or actually stopping the people who exploit them.
I think it's gay. You can call lolicons pedophiles all you want, it's your right to do. But drawings (any drawings) getting banned is the first line of defense for the rest offreeinconvenient speech going away. Loli anime porn and saying Nigger are coal mine canaries.
A sapient cinderblock basically tried this already, they just replaced one sacred cow (jews) with another one (troons.) Pointing and laughing at lolicons being retarded or acting like anyone is meant to embrace them is one thing. I don't understand being happy that the federal government is shifting gears on censorship.
There's no difference. The slope gets slippery here, it's been argued a million times before. If we're prosecuting for drawings of rape then the next step is prosecuting for the "massacre simulators" Jack Thompson talked about.
Yeah it is, I'm a free speech absolutist. I believe gross, stupid and wildly eccentric people should be allowed to say and draw whatever they want. If you believe any differently then I honestly have no idea how you ended up on a website dedicated to observing such people like we're all on a Big Retard Safari.
Without fail this argument always boils down to some moron with a grey gigachad avatar going "Erm, I'm uncomfortable with X, I think it should be banned by some government" and expecting applause, instead of someone calling them a stupid pussy. I don't know if there's a Big Retard Safari thread for zoomer puritans yet, but there would be a lot of material.
Let me know how appeal to normalcy works out for you when it's time for the John Q. Public to vote on whether "gossip sites" like this place should be allowed to exist. Especially when histrionic people like Keffals or Brickface eagerly take the stand to equate Kiwifarms to actual real-world harm.
If anyone has ever wondered how stupid laws lead to stupid places, this guy's response is a pretty good example.
The idea that censoring drawings might set a precedent for other invasions of free speech, or lead to tools designed to "protect the children" that in reality just violate your privacy at all times, or any of the other lessons we've already learned from observing the aftermath of the Patriot Act, all takes second place to "well I think it's a good idea because I'm offended by these particular drawings." I expect that opinion on Reddit. It's strange to spot it around here.
Have at it.