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“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.

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