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.

  • whaleross@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    6 hours ago

    Dude, why are you telling me this? I have zero interest in your porn preferences. Are you intersted in mine? Do you need to justify that you are a good person AND enjoy porn? Please, these are not questions that I want answers to. These are questions for yourself to contemplate.

    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      31·
      6 hours ago

      You brought up the theme of porn preferences the moment you implied the downvotes have anything to do with “their porn will be limited”.

      If you say that everyone downvoting simply has the fear that their preferred porn gets taken away, get corrected, and then double down by insinuating that i watch “kiddy porn”, you will have to read what i actually watch.

      Edit: By the way, i AM interested in what you watch, because, you know, the accuser is often reflecting their own failings on others.

      • whaleross@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        5 hours ago

        Ok, my friend. Go outside for a walk and enjoy the weather and let that noggin have a rest from thinking so much.

        PS. That was not an accusation but an observation of the normalisation of porn in all its varieties that suggests it would be remotely needed to distance one self from kiddy porn. I understand why, with jailbaits and ageplay kinks and hentai and furry depictions of 800 year old witches that look like children mixed in with all other porn in the endless flow. But for people that are not desensitised to having porn exposure 24/7, it is really weird for somebody to mention that they are not into child abuse. Not being into kiddie porn is the normal that does not have to be declared.