> but it's hard to decide where to draw the line
It's actually very easy - legal and illegal.
It's actually very easy - legal and illegal.
Legality isn't always the best way to draw a line.
I am not claiming that there is a simple solution for how to handle censorship that is optimal for the benefit of mankind. I am saying the way companies should approach implementing it is relatively straight-forward.
Otherwise you'll have endless debates about what is and is not moral, where nobody will ever agree and product managers and engineers and everybody else will constantly be in tension and nobody will be happy.
Censor as little as necessary based on laws and let people make their own decisions for what they want to view.
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.
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.
I don't really "get' it either.
Although legal vs illegal is binary, the decision tree leading up to that is ridiculously complex.
> It's actually very easy - legal and illegal.
In what jurisdiction?
its nice to think laws are just and they should be but thats not neccissarily the way of things some places are worse than others.
as for this subject specifically it should be obvious to people which side this is on.
Obviously cp should be censored... but then SE's could start censoring political stuff or anything that does or doesn't support fascism or socialism depending on their mood and political leanings. Not that censoring fascism is bad, but people should still be able to make up their own minds about things through research.
Hopefully AI will become good enough to accurately 'age' and block under-age pictures of minors altogether regardless of whether they're nude or not, honestly I think minors should be protected a bit, although not sure how that would work w/ minors in the public image like child actors.