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These are teenage girls, not adult men. This isn’t graffiti, but highly realistic sexual depictions.

There’s a massive difference.

Nevertheless there is almost a moral equivocation between images of sex and actual sex by some people. We are talking about restraining someone physically inside a 2 by 3 meter box for multiple years as a retribution for what is after all just pixels on a screen.

(And by the way the implicit comparison here between an image of stalin and an image of a teenage girl is more apt than most would care to admit given the ideological function fulfilled by sexualized images of young women in contemporary American society)

“Just pixels on a screen”

What is wrong with you?

Isn't it true? You are reacting to me with a fervor that lends its intensity from the moral values around actual physical sex with actual minors, but nothing of that kind occured here.

To you, it might be pixels on a screen, to someone else it's their life and dignity.

It wouldn't be the first time a high-schooler killed themself over bullying.

And to a good Stalinist it was the dignity of the USSR.

Something millions died to protect in the great patriotic war.

Again, symbolic violence is worse than real violence to a lot of people.

The point is that these images are so realistic that it's difficult to tell they're fake. Your weird Soviet analogy is not remotely the same thing -- making a teenage girl think that everyone in her life has seen her expose herself sexually and done things she hadn't really done is personally humiliating and devastating in a way scrawling some political heresy about a public figure is obviously not. Kids have literally committed suicide over shit like this.

That is a problem with US society. One that deep fakes can solve by allowing plaslsible deniability for any image or video.

Yeah, 'pixel on a screen'. I will send deepfake video of your daughter (or sister, or mother) having sex to you, let's see how they appreciate it. It's only pixels after all. Or picture of you having sex to your friends, SO and parents, that's probably fine.

I don't have sex in front of my friends and family for a reason, and I would appreciate my privacy protected by the state. And yes, privacy breach of this magnitude is probably worth 2-3 years (which basically means nothing for the first offense, let's be realistic, but makes the second offense way more consequencial).

Not sure why you are being downvoted would a normal reaction to someone just saying it is a "pixel on a screen"

Go ahead.

It's not like I can stop you from imagining it.

Adding a GPU to the mix does make it any worse given that you already thought about it.

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