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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by lonelappde on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:33PM (#20617870)
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.

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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by DuskStar on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:49PM (#20618095)
> 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.

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