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Re:Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it sugge... by SketchySeaBeast on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:14PM (#18877629)
> Homosexuality used to be illegal. If we censored anyone talking about it, it would probably still be illegal today and millions of people would still feel disgusted at themselves for having "unnatural feelings."

But that's not what the issue is here. Displaying CP is literally illegal - was discussing homosexuality illegal? Was viewing nude males? It's the difference between blocking the literal illegal item or blocking items adjacent to it.

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Re:Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it sugge... by gnulinux on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:30PM (#18877773)
Yes there are countries where displaying homosexuality is illegal (e.g. Iran). I cannot comment on the legality of discussing homosexuality but that's irrelevant anyway since discussing CP is also legal.
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Re:Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it sugge... by ceejayoz on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:18PM (#18877663)
> Displaying CP is literally illegal - was discussing homosexuality illegal? Was viewing nude males?

These are weird comparisons to try to make.

Discussing CP is legal. Viewing it is not. Viewing homosexual pornography has been illegal in the past. Viewing nude males wasn't illegal, just like viewing nude children isn't necessarily.

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Re:Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it sugge... by SketchySeaBeast on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:33PM (#18877804)
Perfect. Discussion is fine, but the actual illegal act is illegal. So.. the line is easy to draw. Once viewing an imagine is illegal you shouldn't allow the viewing of that image.
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Re:Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it sugge... by michaelmrose on Thursday January 10, 2019 @07:30PM (#18879963)
Computers are incredibly dumber than you imagine. We are terribly excited that a computer can tell the difference between cat and not a cat.
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