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I gotta say it. Depictions of children being exploited in fiction is not a crime and cannot be seen as the same as actual csam. There are no victims, and censoring fiction because it is about “immoral” topics is always a bad thing.
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Anonymous 5w

As a survivor of the csam industry I honestly get offended when someone tries to equate the two. There are no children hurt when someone decides to write a fan fiction of a teacher assaulting their student. Plus, who decides what’s immoral? Sure, we can all agree that sexual depictions of children is bad, and a lot of us can say that for incest, less for rape, but then it goes on. A lot of people think any sexual content in fiction is immoral, is that less valid than your feelings? Why?-

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Anonymous 5w

Agreed. It being there makes me deeply uncomfortable, but every reason for why it shouldn’t exist makes me uncomfortable in a different way. I can’t trust people to stop at a certain point. When does the banning stop? When is something too “problematic?” Who decides?

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Anonymous 5w

That’s fair

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

- “well when people read about people doing that to children they’ll want to do it themselves” I’ve read a fuck ton of books about murder and I’ve never wanted to do it myself. “People who are already pedophiles will read it and get off on it” while pedophiles deserve nothing, thinking about committing a crime isn’t a crime. “I don’t want to read that stuff because it’s triggering” then don’t. Thought crimes are not crimes and we can’t treat them as such.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

Mmhmmhm! And the thing is, like if we’re going off people’s feelings on this then it’s absolutely going to become “depictions of sex are immoral, banned!” “Transgenders are immoral, banned!” “The gays are immoral, banned!” “Depictions of religions other than christianity in a positive light is immoral. Banned!” Because some people will claim they see those as the same as csam and so obviously they need to be banned.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

Preaching to the choir. Wasn’t even that long ago that you couldn’t have gays in movie and people are out here like ‘but we won’t do it again, pleeeeease give us the precedent to ban whatever we want’

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