Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
by DuskStar on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:24PM
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That's the sort of thing that starts to hit some really grey areas, and also starts to illuminate some of the differences in the justifications for banning CP. If you're against CP because it means the exploitation of children, animated images of children that do not exist should be fine - but if you're against it due to it being disgusting or normalizing the abuse of real children it's not. However, I believe that the Supreme Court has thus far held that drawings fall under the 1st Amendment, as (IMO) they most certainly should.
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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
by lonelappde on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:33PM
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There is an important shade of grey between "clearly artificial image" and "real image", where "artificial but real-looking image" sits. It has the same normalizing effect as a real image.
Otherwise there's no reason to oppose real images, since the harm is done before the image is ever seen.
Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
by DuskStar on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:49PM
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> Otherwise there's no reason to oppose real images, since the harm is done before the image is ever seen.
We ban specifically real images for two general reasons - one is that allowing them encourages the production of more such images, necessitating additional abuse, and the second is that for the children involved, knowing that other people are looking at those images is a huge violation.
Neither of those applies for "artificial but real-looking" images.