Comment by chrisjj
12 hours ago
You are mistaken. Item #1 is "images of children of a pornographic nature".
Wheras "CSAM isn’t pornography—it’s evidence of criminal exploitation of kids." https://rainn.org/get-informed/get-the-facts-about-sexual-vi...
A distinction without a difference.
Even if some kid makes a video of themselves jerking off for their own personal enjoyment, unprompted by anyone else, if someone else gains access to that (eg a technician at a store or an unprincipled guardian) and makes a copy for themselves they're criminally exploiting the kid by doing so.
Seems like a pretty big difference. It's got to be worse to actually do something to somone in real life than not do that.
Not really, otherwise perpetrators will just "I was just looking at it, I didn't do anything as bad as creating it". Their act is still illegal.
There was a cartoon picture I remember seeing around 15+ years ago of Bart Simpson performing a sex act. In some jurisdictions (such as Australia), this falls under the legal definition.
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> A distinction without a difference.
Huge difference here in Europe. CSAM is a much more serious crime. That's why e.g. Interpol runs a global database of CSAM but doesn't bother for mere child porn.
You're wrong - at least from the perspective of the commons.
First paragraph on Wikipedia
> Child pornography (CP), also known as child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and by more informal terms such as kiddie porn,[1][2][3] is erotic material that involves or depicts persons under the designated age of majority. The precise characteristics of what constitutes child pornography vary by criminal jurisdiction.[4][5]
Honestly, reading your link got me seriously facepalming. The whole argument seems to be centered around the fact that sexualizing children is disgusting, hence it shouldn't be called porn. While i'd agree that sexualizing kids is disgusting, denying that it's porn on that grounds is feels kinda... Childish? Like someone holding their ears closed and shouting loudly in order not to hear the words the adults around them are saying.
I think the idea is that normal porn can be consensual. Material involving children never can be.
Perhaps similar to how we have a word for murder that is different from "killing" even though murder always involves killing.
> First paragraph on Wikipedia
"...the encyclopedia anyone can edit." Yes, there are people who wish to redefine CSAM to include child porn - including even that between consenting children committing no crime and no abuse.
Compare and contrast Interpol. https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Crimes-against-children/A...
> The whole argument seems to be centered around the fact that sexualizing children is disgusting, hence it shouldn't be called porn.
I have no idea how anyone could reasonably draw that conclusion from this thread.
> have no idea how anyone could reasonably draw that conclusion from this thread.
> > Honestly, reading your link got me seriously facepalming. The whole argument seems to be centered around the fact that sexualizing children is disgusting, hence it shouldn't be called porn.
Where exactly did you get the impression from I made this observation from this comment thread?
Your interpol link seems to be literally using the same argument again from a very casual glance btw.
> We encourage the use of appropriate terminology to avoid trivializing the sexual abuse and exploitation of children.
> Pornography is a term used for adults engaging in consensual sexual acts distributed (mostly) legally to the general public for their sexual pleasure.
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Well, RAINN are stupid then.
CSAM is the woke word for child pornography, which is the normal.word for pornography involving children. Pornography is defined as material aiming to sexually stimulate, and CSAM is that.
> CSAM is the woke word for child pornography
I fear you could be correct.
CSAM is to child pornography as MAP is to pedophile. Both words used to refer to a thing without the negative connotation.
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