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really? is it? this entire outrage felt petty, malicious and nitpicky to me from the get go. is it really that big of a deal? if minors are deep enough into tech to play around with an open source chromium fork, they have been exposed to far, far more and probably darker stuff than raunchy, anthropomorphized bunnies or whatever. this is someone’s pet project, probably someone rather young themselves. it entirely possible you even found use in this someone’s pet project. And now you’re coming after them because of a cringy Easter egg? That’s just f*ckin mean

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I agree. It was hugely overblown. A big part of the LLM and Stable Diffusion software originates from 4chan's /g/ board. When a significant portion of cyber security specialists are furries who even post NSFW furry art on their social media profiles, is it really so surprising? It feels like another puritanical crusade and outrage culture at play.

Whatever age this individual is doesn't matter really. It seems that the situation has been handled, and I'm sure it was a massive lesson.

I didn't do anything but repost the bold link from the first paragraph of TFA...

Some people feel validated by causing or supporting moral outrage on behalf of others as it feels like they are safeguarding them.

I'm just happy some people are keeping the yiff community in mind :)

ain’t it crazy? I’ll be the first to admit i don’t get furry stuff, but i also don’t get just about a universe of other stuff people are seemingly very much into, and neither do i expect everyone to understand why i willingly risk my life skydiving just because it gives me joy. this is cyberspace for gods sake, have some self respect and stop being dicks to others to virtue signal, that’s just downright mean man

Exactly that!

I pretty much tune out of any argument as soon as it devolves into "think of the children".

Maybe parent your children so when they go digging around in open source code and find some furry art it doesn't somehow destroy them.

That would certainly cause issues if you ever let them loose on the internet unsupervised. Much easier to teach them that there’s nothing inherently wrong with images like that.

That is pretty much my point. People freak out like this will somehow irreparably damage their children, which is complete nonsense. The reality is these people just don't want to have an uncomfortable conversation with their child, so they choose to make it everyone else's problem.

Becoming a furry does constitute irreparable damage.

Not being happy with your kid's sexual preferences when they grow up sounds more like a you problem

There’s much, much worse things to get excited over. Anthropomorphic cats seem kind of benign.

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