Olives @olives@qoto.org

There is also an argument that some portion are "older", but again, they may have done it decades ago. There is no "when".

Hmm... Someone brought up a scenario where someone deliberately humiliates someone "without sexual intent" to it.

First off, that isn't my opinion on this. It's a commentary on current events. Secondly, it's my understanding that it's a "discretion" sort of thing, so if someone is being clearly malicious, there is still an option to enhance that.

It's actually quite a bit disgusting when someone does this because they degrade actual abuse by obscuring it with fake conspiracy abuse.

So, in a place where the age of sexual consent is 16, a certain number of teens over 18 having sex with ones under that is supposed to be "shocking"? For some bizarre reason, bad faith actors insist on phrasing it like that, then trying to pretend it's "creepy old men". It's also not the porn*.

* https://reason.com/2015/07/23/despite-all-the-panic-millennial-teens-h/

There is a reason for my method. Namely, the more he pushes crazy conspiracy fuel, the more I push back against that.

I think it's my duty to deal with him again.

You might be wondering, what to do about #WarOnPorn? Well...

My strong recommendation for Germans would basically be to contact lawmakers, state, federal, all levels, and to voice your opposition to censorship, "age verification" privacy intrusions, whatever.

https://qoto.org/@olives/111413137710570303 An example of anti-porn stupidity (and also anti puritan science).

What the black cat said.

Curiously, "pedocriminal" tends to get translated as "pedophile". That is vaguer and less precise and not the intended semantics. It'd be better to translate that as-is.

According to Alec, one of the conditions of licensing PhotoDNA is that you're gagged from talking about false positives.

Apparently, Germany is looking to punish people posting child porn photos (who aren't "pedophiles") less harshly. I guess they mean someone acting without sexual intent (i.e. for "shock"), or teens sexting with each other.

There was a certain amount of discourse about how the German Police (or as they might call it, polizei) was wasting time chasing teens sexting with each other. Honestly, I think it'd be best for the police to not get involved at all in those cases. Also, with some of these cases, you have to wonder if it's "exploitation" per se, or if someone hasn't tripped over a legal technicality (I still remember that "medical photo" case with Google).

While they're at it, they should strive to protect freedom of expression more strongly.

If you missed it, Germany literally has a crazy obscure bureaucrat in a state government who hates porn, and tries to censor any porn site.

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/07/1204450909/germanys-far-right-party-now-polls-higher-than-the-three-parties-in-government

"They want to ban our pork knuckle, our bratwurst, our schnitzel. Well, I'll promise you one thing. They will not take away my schnitzel."

Sounds tasty... And conspiratorial. Weird mix.

"Many Germans feared they'd have to pay for expensive heat pumps. After a public outcry that the AfD joined, the bill failed"

If it failed, then I guess they're not needed there?

Yeah... I have serious doubts about this party.

Got to "love" how Elon's site's top concern when someone complains about "hateful content" is censoring (well, there are complaints of shadow bans) sexual expression.

It is interesting to see this false dichotomy between "safe" and "not safe" (and I don't think they would be effective how they think it would be) which only serves to distract from the actual privacy invading / censorious proposals.

Sometimes, I wonder if an artist trying to accentuate particular parts of the body (i.e. the realism of the drawing style or interesting traits) doesn't rub a few people the wrong way.

It's not really surprising, that someone might do that for parts someone (though, maybe not everybody) might be able to get more out of (or some other reason to like that style, such as aesthetics)...

Anecdotally, with non-sexual art, I'd say there's been a bit more censorship along those lines (not really a good thing)... Then again, there's not much data to go on about censorship there.