ah social media, some people are truly as dumb as rocks
CSAM is just the latest iteration of the term we use for the concept due to the euphemism treadmill.
I think it's actually a little too specific. It's trying to exclude "innocent" things like selfies or "simulated" things like drawings, but those are just as illegal in some or all countries.
Selfies shared between teenagers are innocent! When an adult enters the picture is when it becomes a problem, because yes: it’s abuse and exploitation that we’re objecting to. Unless we think morality is a question of aesthetics, then yes, this also means drawings are not in and of themselves our concern.
Why do think this is unreasonable?
How do you feel about 17 year olds collecting nudes of 14 year olds to gawk at and bully them over?
Does “17 year olds collecting nudes of 14 year olds to gawk at and bully them over” not strike you as abusive and/or exploitative? Because it certainly does to me.
I think you’ve chosen to interpret my post in an excessively literal manner (i.e only adults abuse or exploit teenagers) rather than the far more obvious alternatives I intended (e.g a 16 year old “sexting” their 17 year old partner).
Or, put another way, if I say we’re opposed to abuse and exploitation, and then you present me with a situation involving abuse and exploitation, of course I’d be opposed to it. Certainly you’re capable of figuring out this isn’t the sort of thing I was talking about.
I have a friend who didn’t know who won the US presidential election until I told him. He just had other things going on. Part of me envies that kind of focus.
It is a complete disregard of freedom and rights that generations of people before him fought and died over so he has the luxury of ignoring elections .
A luxury he or his next generations (1) may not have in the future as a result of their attitude and indifference.
It is one thing not to be able leave the world a better place than we got it, it is something else to leave it behind worse not even due to greed but of sheer indifference.
(1) and this has nothing to do with trump directly or any hyperbole that democracy is on the line. A interested population is key to not having power concentrated in the hands of few who will exploit it inevitably.
Doesn't this suggest its populations' collective votes that matter, not individuals' efforts? It could be different if you have a sizable audience or something and can effectively influence that population, but otherwise, individual votes are irrelevant. If you're not in power, positive personal outcomes can be mutually exclusive with being hyperinformed.
Here is an excellent CGP grey video on the topic https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs
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> hyperinformed
Knowing the results of the four year election cycle of the most influential country is just being informed . We are not talking about every gaffe trump did or said during the run up to the election, just the results, anything below that is ignorant
I can't run a free speech darknet site because some glowboy will upload CP to it and then netflow dox me to put me in a federal pen if I'm not fast enough on it! The only good fix is "there are no illegal numbers."