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Cake day: September 12th, 2023

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  • This guy wasn’t nailed on the CSAM game alone. The game is an indicator that he’s a person who is going to be consuming other CSAM.

    Of course there should be more resources dedicated to preventing child abuse. That’s the issue, and not one likely to be addressed, in the US, while the highest office in the nation is filled by a pedophile. But this case didn’t occur in the US and the prioritization of which CSAM to remove first shouldn’t be a discussion, but rather it should be the allocation of more resources.

    It’s not “just drawings”. It’s still child sexual abuse materials.



  • Sorry, but pedophilia is vastly different than coprophilia and other outlandish fetishes in the scale of harm to others and the inability for it to ever be consensual.

    I could talk about how pedophiles also tend to seek positions where they hold power dynamics over children, even ones who don’t act on their desires, increasing the likelihood of abuse, but I think your point is moreso about a hypothetical pedophile who doesn’t act on their desires, doesn’t acquire CSAM, doesn’t surround themselves with children and simply struggles internally with their fetish and actively seeks professional help on how to maintain a safe life for themselves and others.

    Yes, I suppose that person doesn’t need any government intervention in their lives outside of the monitoring you suggested.

    That said, this particular article is about a man who did seek out, acquire and consume CSAM instead of seeking therapy. The government detected this and removed him from society such that he cannot be a threat to children. That sounds about right.

    I’m not sure if the Norwegian prison system is more focused on reform vs punitive measures, though I would hope that it should go without saying that the former is always ideal and the latter isn’t actually helpful to society.


  • HOI4 is an interesting choice for an analogy here.

    It’s unanalagous in that HOI4 sanitized itself of the Holocaust specifically so people wouldn’t be able to roleplay committing xenophobic genocide, unlike the game in question which is specifically designed to let you roleplay a pedophile rapist preying on the already abused.

    However it is tangentially analogous in the sense that anime tends to have a bit of a Nazi bar issue with pedophilia thanks to people (who I’m gonna have to assume are well intentioned) unintentionally making room for pedophiles to exist and operate with arguments just like the ones you’re making here.

    Of course video games don’t cause violence. The only people interested in the pedophile rapist roleplay visual novel, though, are very likely people with an interest in pedophilia. The government is right to monitor and remove people who acquire CSAM instead of going to therapy from society and it isn’t overreach to protect children in this way. Is there a potential for such a system to be abused by the government? Yes, of course, but such is true of any system. Preventing government abuse and corruption is separate from stopping the distribution of CSAM and protecting children from predators.