cross-posted from: https://multiverse.soulism.net/c/soulism/p/51754/multiverse-has-defederated-fedinsfw-app-for-hosting-child-pornography
Hello MULTIVERSE users and off-site visitors alike. We have recently defederated fedinsfw.app due to ongoing child pornography concerns which the fedinsfw admin team are aware of, and do not intend to address. Before I explain the key issue, I’d like to define a few terms:
- In Australia, Child Pornography Material is legally defined by the Criminal Code Act 1995, section 473.1 as:
(a) material that depicts a person, or a representation of a person, who is, or appears to be, under 18 years of age and who […] is engaged in, or appears to be engaged in, a sexual pose […]; and does this in a way that reasonable persons would regard as being, in all the circumstances, offensive;
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© material that describes a person who is, or is implied to be, under 18 years of age and who […] is engaged in, or is implied to be engaged in, a sexual pose […]; and does this in a way that reasonable persons would regard as being, in all the circumstances, offensive; or […]
Jailbait is a slang term for pornography depicting subjects who appear to be of age (adults), but are in fact underage (children; adolescents)
Fauxbait is faux jailbait - pornography depicting adults who appear to be children who appear to be adults.
According to the legal definition of child pornography material here in Australia, fauxbait is child pornography material, because of the implication that the actors depicted represent underage persons. And frankly, we here at MULTIVERSE agree with the law here. Fauxbait is disgusting. Legally and in our opinion, pornography depicting adult women who appear as adults is completely fine. But if someone posts a picture of an adult woman and calls it “fauxbait”, we are disgusted and the law is interested. Reality is not objective - the same legal picture of an adult person becomes illegal child pornography when it’s posted with a particular framing.
fedinsfw.app hosts a community, !fauxbait@fedinsfw.app, which is for Fauxbait. I have contacted the admin of the site, @lemmyposter212@fedinsfw.app, both privately and in public, pointing out that the community breaks the site’s rules 1 and 8. The admin disagrees. Although they dislike the community, they don’t believe it breaks the rules, and do not wish to violate their impartiality by banning the community.
We here at MULTIVERSE have no such impartiality. The admin inaction on child pornography violates our Rule 3 on Restricted Violence, in that it’s fucking nasty. It’s degrading to the women being posted to call them fauxbait, it’s dangerous towards the users to expose them to risks of committing sex crimes, and it has the potential to desensitise people to child porn, making them more likely to re-offend in worse ways. We are joining the growing movement of instances defederating fedinsfw.app, and we ask if your instance has not, that you speak to your admins and ask them to do the same.
Happens every time gooners are afraid their porn will be limited.
I don’t watch that stuff, because i rarely look at pornography, and if i do, i prefer well developed bodytypes. But I will downvote anyone using a CP-scare to silence something legal.
Since there are only verified adults on display, there’s only one reason why someone cries for censuring - a moralin-drenched opinion and ignorance of other’s preferences.
People like this are the same who go after any type of media that doesn’t align with their own world view, and they always use censuring and hiding stuff for everyone, overstepping their limits and defining themselves as the only valid moral compass by which anyone should live - because they personally can’t cope with content they don’t agree with (mostly out of a misplaced sense of shame)
The same mindset empowers strongmen and populists in politics, who know exactly how to play those fools - with real life consequences (think pizzagate). This kind of behavior simply cannot be encouraged.
@kingofras@lemmy.world
The gooners are downvoting the dude that asked the question of why the very news about this is being downvoted.
This is a perfect example of a knee jerk reaction from the gooners.
By the way, personally I get sceptical of anyone that feels the need to clarify that they don’t watch kiddy porn. Shouldn’t that ring some kind of bell?
I just wanted to make clear that i do not have a horse in this race. I am slowly approaching an age where pornography as a whole simply isn’t that interesting anymore.
Also, for me personally it’s a question of ethics to prefer female friendly pornography - it’s still no 100% guarantee that everything is above board (i can’t exactly run background checks on everyone involved to make sure), but its important for me that my “consumption” is ethical in most areas of my life.