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Everybody understands there's no real kid involved. I still don't see an issue reporting it to authorities and all the definitions of CSAM make a point of including simulated and illustrated forms of child porn.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_pornography
Definitions of CSAM definitely do not include illustrated and simulated forms. They do not have a victim and therefore cannot be abuse. I agree that it should not be allowed on public platforms, hence why all instances hosting it should be defederated. Despite this, it is not illegal, so reporting it to authorities is a waste of time for you and the authorities who are trying to remove and prevent actual CSAM.
CSAM definitions absolutely include illustrated and simulated forms. Just check the sources on the wikipedia link and climb your way up, you'll see "cartoons, paintings, sculptures, ..." in the wording of the protect act
They don't actually need a victim to be defined as such
That Wikipedia broader is about CP, a broader topic. Practically zero authorities will include illustrated and simualated forms of CP in their definitions of CSAM
I assumed it was the same thing, but if you're placing the bar of acceptable content below child porn, I don't know what to tell you.
That's not what I was debating. I was debating whether or not it should be reported to authorities. I made it clear in my previous comment that it is disturbing and should always be defederated.
Ah. It depends on the jurisdiction the instance is in
Mastodon has a lot of lolicon shit in japan-hosted instances for that reason
Lolicon is illegal under US protect act of 2003 and in plenty of countries
What's the point of reporting it to authorities? It's not illegal, nor should it be because there's no victim, so all reporting it does is take up valuable time that could be spent tracking down actual abuse.
It's illegal in a lot of places including where I live.
In the US you have the protect act of 2003
Linked to the obscenity doctrine
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1466A
Wow, that's absolutely ridiculous, thanks for sharing! That would be a very unpopular bill to get overturned...
I guess it fits with the rest of the stupidly named bills. It doesn't protect anything, it just prosecutes undesirable behaviors.
I don't think there's anything ridiculous about it. Lolicon should be illegal.
Why? Who is the victim?
There's no definite conclusion on whether consuming and distributing lolicon content could lead some individuals to seek out or create explicit content involving real children
If they rule that out entirely through the scientific method one day, then I'll join your side
Weebs usually respond to that "Well that's like saying video games cause violence!" so I'll jump ahead of you, that would be like saying we should forbid Lolicon videogames in a society that already has lolicon books, lolicon movies, lolicon cartoons and where history classes mostly cover instances of countries showing lolicon to each other. That's not the situation we're in, and even if it was, it's still not necessarily comparable. Sexual urges have properties that violence doesn't share.
Yeah, I'd definitely like more research on the topic. I imagine it's a correlative relationship, but not causal (as in, pedos disproportionately also like loli, but enjoying loli won't likely make you a pedo), but I don't have much to go on there.
What I do know is that most reports of "gateway" behaviors end up being false. For example, smoking weed isn't going to push you toward harder drugs, but people who may be interested in harder drugs will likely start with weed. The same goes for violent video games, gambling, prostitution, etc. Each of those things can be used in a healthy way, so imo they should not be illegal.
But I don't have a high quality study to back it up. I'm completely willing to concede if the science shows otherwise.