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I have not entered any such communities, but looking at their front door I see signs this is likely a front - with more in the back room, possibly a hidden forum somewhere.
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That sounds far fetched that its some front for some deeper more sinester purpose. I think it is ignorant to the nature of people. Most probably enjoy the drawings and that is as far as it goes. For a small minority some probably take it further. People will always assume the most vile small minority of any group is representative of the whole sadly.
I read a lot of blog posts 2 years ago when I started QOTO to try to reconcile my position on lolicon, much of it coming from the people on these instances themselves. It seemed clear to me most people who engage in lolicon and the majority of japanese (at least according to what I read) do not see it as related to actual real life children. It is a fantasy world like magic and other anime themes that arent meant to translate to the real world and for most people do not.
To me it sounds like the same argument as people who think violence in video games implies people who like video games are violent. Thats just not how humans work.
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I agree, there will be some places where people trade actual child porn.
All I'm saying is when I was researching the mastodon instances it didnt seem these were very popular places for that, at least not on the large lolicon instances like pawoo. It wouldnt surprise me though if some smaller instances engage in it as a point and purpose for the instance. Just saying its not the majority and I dont think its the case of Pawoo. Though I could be wrong.
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@freemo
I am not saying that all places who have this kind of postign will be dens of iniquity, but there will be some as they are in other places in the Net, and constantly looking for cover from law enforcement agencies.
The Medium.com article on why Mastodon was so big in Japan (dated 2017) is interesting, and I have seen some responses from Japanese writers. I liked to see the reference to the concerns of western sys admins when faced with the possibility of those images ending up cached in their own instances.
Reason why Gargron does not allow any media from Pawoo.net, and also has a long list of suspended or silenced instances at mastodon.social. (list is on his git hub pages).
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