This has nothing to do with legality or restricting freedoms. It’s about the admins building a forum to the form they’d like to see.
Plus the harm principle is really fuzzy. What level of interaction is the cutoff for harm vs inadvertent impact?
I also think drawn kiddie porn hurts the people who view it inadvertently. I don’t know if there have been studies on a causation link between viewed cp content and sexual preferences towards minors, or causal relationship between that and abuse/grooming. But that’s another possible harm connection.
Does anyone know if ani does have a lot of csam? Their rule against it seems pretty robust. Was there stuff getting by the rule, or do the .ml admins have a more broad definition of csam?
- Do not submit content depicting a child (both real and virtual) engaged or involved in explicit sexual activities. A child is defined as a person who is under 18 years old; or a person, regardless of age, who is presented, depicted or portrayed as under 18 years old.
I’m saying the stuff I saw was fully clothed.