At least 56,575 children are sexually abused every year.
That’s according to U.S. child protective services records.
The number is staggering—yet it only reflects child sexual abuse that is recognized, reported, and found likely to have occurred against children ages 0-17.
FBI crime data shows that 51% of reported rape is perpetrated against people ages 0-19.
That’s approximately 61,754 young rape victims every year, including our most vulnerable children, adolescents navigating middle and high school, and young adults just beginning to move through the world with more independence.
When what passes for the leader of the "free world" is a spearhead for pedophilia it's kind of a bit late to be safe talking about "normalizing" stuff.
Well yeah, that's why it's so silly to see comments about how these people at the top are trying to normalize it. It already is, they're already in power, they're not going anywhere.
I doubt that group would be very significant if it weren't for the outsized influence of a handful of very wealthy, decadent men. At the very least there would be fewer roadblocks to doing something about the rest of the pervs.
When I was a kid I thought the saying was “why don’t you piss in one hand and shit in the other, and see which one fills first?” And I was like wow adults are gross
My mother used to say "If wishes were horses," and I had no idea where that came from. I didn't get internet until after her death in 2001. I looked up that saying and the complete version is, " If wishes were horses then beggars would ride. " Apparently, it's a very old saying so I guess adults weren't always gross.
Ah, in English we say "don't hold your breath" for that, although sometimes it's also used for things that might happen eventually but it will take a long time.
Doesn't the widespread outrage kind of speak against this, though?
Here in Hungary, it was a scandal regarding the cover up of sexual abuses of young children under state protection that sparked the overthrow of Orbán, and was the only thing that managed to crack that nut finally. It's hard to overstate how much it galvanized people, even his own supporters, against him.
I don't know, I understand that it's demoralizing and I can even buy the argument it's more normalized than it should be, but the very existence of outrage against figures like Epstein (which seem to me to be extremely widespread, though maybe I'm missing something being out of the country for some years at this point) or this Hungarian scandal lead me to think the vast, vast majority of people do not find it remotely normal or acceptable. I don't think tarring all of society with the brush that it's been normalized is accurate. Or I'm misunderstanding what you mean by normalized.
It's extremely telling that your comment is the first I've heard of that aspect of the election in Hungary. The mainstream press in the US effectively shrugged and said "I guess they just got tired of him"
In fact, it feels a lot like how the press in my country "explained" Obama's first election. Just a vague "Americans are tired of the Republican leadership and wanted change," Like the torture and disappearing of anyone they could sweep under the abstract wars of the time wasn't outrageous enough
Might already be capitalizing on it with the international sex trafficking of children. Surprised most people don’t know about shit pop or you call it hip hop.
Hell, I vividly remember the old /u/ViolentAcrez thing, and tons of users being butthurt when subs like /r/Jailbait, /r/CreepShots, and /r/Upskirting were taken down.
As bad as this guy is (literally just one of THE worst guys), I can never get over how his wife is a pediatrician and they have three daughters and she's just along for the ride? The damage that family does to millions of children, and especially girls, through their direct action and inaction is astonishing.
I really feel bad for parents like you. What a horrible era to live through. Younger people like me, who don't have any direct siblings or significant others don't have much to worry about. But I can't even imagine what it must be for people with families.
Libertarian types, which the right is part of, see CSAM as just "recordings of crimes", so they likely do it intentionally, to slowly change the general public's view on the matter.
I mean I can be libertarian and see that legal definition holding water while also thinking that's fucked up to want to see naked kids. Loli bait or otherwise is a problem and people should be shamed when they make, buy, or engage with it.
This country hates its children. And all vulnerable people. We continually treat them as disposable, exploitable resources instead of people deserving of protection and care.
Today's kids regularly have to rehearse finding cover from a hail of bullets at school, try to prepare themselves for an unlivable ecology, and wonder if any random picture of them will instantly be turned into porn via the new basis of our country's economy. Capitalism is going great.
We always have treated our children as disposable. It was difficult even to prohibit factory child labor, which faced serious resistance from the courts. Some states are even reversing that. (Agricultural child labor is still legal.)
I good deep dive is the You're Wrong About on Juvenile Justice (here on YouTube.)
TL:DR we have a whole subset of crime for kids, delinquency which is stuff that's a crime for kids to do, but not adults. And delinquency crimes are totally used as a pipeline to get kids into the prison industrial complex.
Also, our public education system has always had containment as a priority. When kids are not working but their parents are, they get into mischief, and thus we needed somewhere to cage them. This, and not edification, is why school is mandatory.
Children have fewer rights than adults do, and the law enforcement and the justice system takes full advantage of that to exploit kids.
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Scientists referred to this flirtation with a nuclear chain reaction as "tickling the dragon's tail", based on a remark by physicist Richard Feynman.[12][13]
It was a case of an unfortunate mistranslation due to the lack of awareness among historians about the thriving scalie scene at the Manhattan Project.
A Venus figurine is any Upper Palaeolithic statue portraying a woman, usually carved in the round.[1] Most have been unearthed in Europe, but others have been found as far away as Siberia and distributed across much of Eurasia.
Most date from the Gravettian period (26,000–21,000 years ago).[1] However, findings are not limited to this period; for example, the Venus of Hohle Fels dates back at least 35,000 years...
For context, we figured out agriculture and started to move away from hunter-gatherer life about 12,000 years ago.
These figurines are recognised as some of the earliest works of prehistoric art.
Most have wide hips and legs that taper to a point. Arms and feet are often absent, and the head is usually small and faceless. Various figurines exaggerate the abdomen, hips, breasts, thighs, or vulva, although many found examples do not reflect these typical characteristics. Depictions of hairstyles can be detailed, and clothing or tattoos may be indicated.[5]
The original cultural meaning and purpose of these artefacts is not known. It has frequently been suggested that they may have served a ritual or symbolic function.
Its a bit overstated. Sure, Sony blocked adult material from Betamax, but VHS simply had longer running time on the tapes, a larger library, and far cheaper hardware.
Uk what sucks? We knew AI was capable of it from start. Hell, we even saw this happen on twitter. And yet what we did? Just let it happen. Gave a slap on the wrist to elon, and did nothing to address this.
I remember when I first saw nano banana I immediately deleted all my profile photos, and looked up on wayback machine to see if any of my photographs were archived or not. Yeah it's kinda late and it must be somewhere on some hidden archive, but atleast I've bought myself some time. Since that day I have maintained a strict policy amongst my friends and family that I'm not going to be in photographs that are going to be posted online.
Also I want to be clear, I'm not saying it's corporations responsibility alone. It's responsibility of individual people to not use it. This is freaking crime. But I'm pissed how world is trying to make it the new normal, and regulators have been too sluggish to respond to it.
This is definitely the kind of ai Trump would use if he was able to use a computer. He should ask his sons to teach him how to use it, they are so good with technology.
I don't think even his worse sycophants wouldn't have thought his truth social posts were a good idea. Depicting himself as jesus etc... So I do have to kind of conclude, at the very least someone has either set up something so easy he can use it, or he's able to use it on his own already.
So by viewing ads you get CSAM in your browser cache. Therefore you can be charged with 1 count of possession for each image saved. Failure to use an ad blocker is dangerous.
People are reading into this way too hard. This seems like an ad attack which is nothing new on Facebook. As you can target by user preference using: "oh this person from your feed but now naked" to bait a click is classic personalized ad attack. Facebook ads platform needs to be abolished altogether - it's incredibly unsafe.
Very deceiving article title by arstechnica, disappointing.
Nothing of what you write absolves meta of the prime responsibility for this happening. They provided the platform where they not only let this happen but actively encourage it (and often pay for it).
I don't think it's just a small amount of men who like preteens and teenagers. I would wager it's most men. We've been imprisoning them for owning CP for decades now, yet the market is not shrinking. Various sources report CSAM is "exploding"...there's been an increase of something like 70% of these websites in the past few years.
CP with younger kids is also growing. Hundreds of thousands of websites host this material in USA, not even counting dark web (and that's just in the USA, only 20% of these sites are in USA).
How big is the market with those kind of numbers? I'm too stupid to figure it out, but I'd imagine that means many millions of men, tens of millions? It staggers the mind.
The internet has been fantastic in many ways, but it's revealed what many men are like in private, and it's a very ugly revelation.
The Satanic Panic was largely about the US public learning (and being aghast) that CSA is epidemic in the US. At the time, one in three women surveyed were sexually abused as kids. (There are several good deep dives on the Satanic Panic. I recommend the webcast series by Sarah Marshall.)
At the time, we just couldn't handle the notion that CSA was being done by people the kids knew (parents, neighbors, friends, teachers, ministers and so on), so we made up the mythology of Satanic Ritual Abuse, that there were these vast rings of Satanists (not the TST kind or the LaVey kind) who were diddling kids as a way to worship the Christian devil, and gain magical power. Americans were not prepared to acknowledge that the abusers were among themselves, and so they bought into the story.
Now there are CSA rings that exist, and the Epstein child trafficking ring is among them, but it's a smaller circle. The thing about being high enough in the ownership class is that legality (or morality) no longer is a barrier to getting stuff you want. And so there's a preponderance of drug use, of sex tourism, of sending gay kids to conversion therapy (or troubled teens to abduction/reformation camps). And so there are industries to facilitate these needs, because the demand is there and they have money to spend.
Moreover, the global system of capitalism depends on contrived desperation. Workers who are skipping meals are more eager to take on jobs that pay meagerly and are dangerous and arduous. When food, shelter, healthcare, etc. is a right, suddenly workers cost a premium. The same thing applies to sex trafficking. After the collapse of the USSR, girls from those countries were glad to put up and put out if it meant a reliable meal ticket. Single-digit kids were on the streets peddling sexual favors for lunch money. This was a font Epstein tapped for his service staff. The more desperate the girls were, the less grooming they required.
Hopefully, this is the moment we figure it out, that as long as we have an owner class, we're going to have systems of contrived desperation to drive bonded servitude, including child trafficking. Especially if the owner class is exponentially more wealthy than the worker class. Maybe this is the moment we are able to collectively develop class consciousness, since it directly serves to protect our children.
Many, yes. A plurality, probably. I don't know that it's most, but given the widespread abandon of anything resembling ethics of any kind in modern society, I think the situation is a lot worse than anyone wants to admit. Contrary to the Christian pearl clutchers, I don't think the moral decay has anything to do with religion, but there has been a moral decay, the call is just coming from inside the house more often than it is from outside.
No, but it is more predominantly male. There's still certain natural and social consequences that keep some people from going full nihilistic hedonist. The collapse of manners, mores, social boundaries, dignity, and basic values is troubling but reality still has a way of making crossing certain boundaries dangerous and expensive for some people.
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mannycalavera@feddit.uk · 283 pts · 23h
Ok that's enough internet for now. Please alert me when it is safe to return.
WoolyNelson@lemmy.world · 117 pts · 23h
Internet? That's enough humanity. We had a... run. Time to burn it all down.
andyburke@fedia.io · 67 pts · 23h
fwiw, I think this is their actual endgame: use digital to convince people this isn't a small cabal of the ultrawealthy causing so much of this harm.
They say dictators don't need majority support, only a majority of people doubting themselves.
velma@sh.itjust.works · 48 pts · 23h
It's really not a small cabal of the ultrawealthy though.
andyburke@fedia.io · 12 pts · 23h
That are trying to normalize AI nudifying apps usable on kids?
velma@sh.itjust.works · 41 pts · 23h
That are trying to normalize pedophilia.
cley_faye@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 21h
When what passes for the leader of the "free world" is a spearhead for pedophilia it's kind of a bit late to be safe talking about "normalizing" stuff.
velma@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 21h
Well yeah, that's why it's so silly to see comments about how these people at the top are trying to normalize it. It already is, they're already in power, they're not going anywhere.
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 22h
I doubt that group would be very significant if it weren't for the outsized influence of a handful of very wealthy, decadent men. At the very least there would be fewer roadblocks to doing something about the rest of the pervs.
velma@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 22h
There are very few roadblocks for rapists as it is.
spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app · 23 pts · 20h
Humanity's fine if we ripped down these over-paid pedos instead of allowed them to run billion dollar scams...
shartgargle@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 18h
If you're the last one out, please shut off the lights.
Siegfried@lemmy.world · 78 pts · 21h
Don't wait standing
(I dont know if this translates, in argentina we day "get yourself a chair" or "don't wait standing" meaning that something wont happen)
TipRing@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 21h
The meaning of the idiom is remarkably clear in English. I propose we adopt this one.
Toga77@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2h
Pull up a seat at the table.
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 51 pts · 21h
I think we say, "don't hold your breath," in English.
h0tbeef@lemmy.zip · 33 pts · 21h
Or “don’t count on it” (because if you did you’d be counting for eternity)
I’m sure there’s more I’m not thinking of right now…
“Why don’t you wish in one hand and shit in the other, and see which one fills up first”
… yeah, I like the chair one
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 20h
When I was a kid I thought the saying was “why don’t you piss in one hand and shit in the other, and see which one fills first?” And I was like wow adults are gross
Ghost_Mermaid@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 8h
My mother used to say "If wishes were horses," and I had no idea where that came from. I didn't get internet until after her death in 2001. I looked up that saying and the complete version is, " If wishes were horses then beggars would ride. " Apparently, it's a very old saying so I guess adults weren't always gross.
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 8h
No, that's wrong. Here's the correct saying: If wishes were horses than I horse you a wish cock up the ass.
h0tbeef@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 20h
idk which hand you’d fill first doing that method, lmao
It’s basically just a crass way to say “wishing is for suckers”
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 16h
Definitely the piss hand, unless your bowels are unwell.
..is not a sentence I thought I'd be typing today 😄
h0tbeef@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 5h
Liquid is harder to hold tho, so I think it depends on how you (subjectively) define when your hand is “full”
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 14h
"Don't kink shame"
NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 20h
Well I know what phrase I'm using at the next opportunity
Uruanna@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 11h
That sounds kinda close to an old saying I've heard once in over 40 years
Put a finger in your mouth and a finger in your anus, and hope; if that doesn't work, switch around.
h0tbeef@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 5h
Lmao, where’d you hear that one?
Uruanna@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3h
High school from some staff member I think. Maybe 25 years ago.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 19h
Ah, in English we say "don't hold your breath" for that, although sometimes it's also used for things that might happen eventually but it will take a long time.
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 4h
The English equivalent would be "Don't hold your breath"
db2@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 21h
It works. I'm going to start using it in fact.
myyass@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 17h
I don't know how to understand the anger I feel.
cley_faye@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21h
Better pull the plug on that bell, because "it's here to stay", some people says proudly.
cinoreus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 4h
This place is currently safer than other places right now.
velma@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 4h
Doubt.
blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 13h
By the time it is safe to return, no one will remember your comment, unfortunately
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 133 pts · 23h
There's a nonzero chance oligarchs are pushing this to normalize pedophilla.
Like how Ghislane Maxwell was super involved in early reddit and their main draw for a long time was "legal" sexualization of children.
Especially since it's a common accusation they make against "the left". Most of the time when they accuse, it's a confession.
velma@sh.itjust.works · 47 pts · 23h
They don't really need to manufacture how normalized pedophilia is in our society. They're simply capitalizing on it.
huey_m@piefed.social · 11 pts · 12h
Doesn't the widespread outrage kind of speak against this, though?
Here in Hungary, it was a scandal regarding the cover up of sexual abuses of young children under state protection that sparked the overthrow of Orbán, and was the only thing that managed to crack that nut finally. It's hard to overstate how much it galvanized people, even his own supporters, against him.
I don't know, I understand that it's demoralizing and I can even buy the argument it's more normalized than it should be, but the very existence of outrage against figures like Epstein (which seem to me to be extremely widespread, though maybe I'm missing something being out of the country for some years at this point) or this Hungarian scandal lead me to think the vast, vast majority of people do not find it remotely normal or acceptable. I don't think tarring all of society with the brush that it's been normalized is accurate. Or I'm misunderstanding what you mean by normalized.
madmantis24@lemmy.wtf · 7 pts · 7h
It's extremely telling that your comment is the first I've heard of that aspect of the election in Hungary. The mainstream press in the US effectively shrugged and said "I guess they just got tired of him"
In fact, it feels a lot like how the press in my country "explained" Obama's first election. Just a vague "Americans are tired of the Republican leadership and wanted change," Like the torture and disappearing of anyone they could sweep under the abstract wars of the time wasn't outrageous enough
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world · -25 pts · 23h
Might already be capitalizing on it with the international sex trafficking of children. Surprised most people don’t know about shit pop or you call it hip hop.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 14 pts · 23h
Definitely are.
You think Epstein was the only one? You think he hasn't already been replaced yet?
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 20h
Wtf does that have to do with the price of eggs in China
Carl@anarchist.nexus · 37 pts · 22h
Hell, I vividly remember the old /u/ViolentAcrez thing, and tons of users being butthurt when subs like /r/Jailbait, /r/CreepShots, and /r/Upskirting were taken down.
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 20h
Fuck spez
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 19h
Ok I was unaware of the Maxwell involvement
gagcar@lemmus.org · 14 pts · 17h
And maybe no surprise, Epstein was involved with the beginnings of 4Chan.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 5 pts · 11h
it's highly likely she was u/maxwellhill
Snapz@lemmy.world · 72 pts · 12h
As bad as this guy is (literally just one of THE worst guys), I can never get over how his wife is a pediatrician and they have three daughters and she's just along for the ride? The damage that family does to millions of children, and especially girls, through their direct action and inaction is astonishing.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 20 pts · 12h
Must be an ironclad prenup
cinoreus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 4h
I really feel bad for parents like you. What a horrible era to live through. Younger people like me, who don't have any direct siblings or significant others don't have much to worry about. But I can't even imagine what it must be for people with families.
Leather@lemmy.world · 68 pts · 13h
The Epstein class supports kiddy porn for profit? Shocked! I tell you shocked!
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 12h
zuck attended epstein's party at one of his "properties" along with other well known billionaires in the past, he definitely knows or is involved.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 8h
I'm so happy that photo exists.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 10h
Libertarian types, which the right is part of, see CSAM as just "recordings of crimes", so they likely do it intentionally, to slowly change the general public's view on the matter.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 8h
I mean I can be libertarian and see that legal definition holding water while also thinking that's fucked up to want to see naked kids. Loli bait or otherwise is a problem and people should be shamed when they make, buy, or engage with it.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 65 pts · 20h
You know how in the movie Idiocracy they used " 'baitin" as a shock factor, and had all the woman characters be demeaned and sexualized?
Somehow, this is a lot worse.
Cheese_man@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 19h
This country hates its children. And all vulnerable people. We continually treat them as disposable, exploitable resources instead of people deserving of protection and care.
Today's kids regularly have to rehearse finding cover from a hail of bullets at school, try to prepare themselves for an unlivable ecology, and wonder if any random picture of them will instantly be turned into porn via the new basis of our country's economy. Capitalism is going great.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 12h
We always have treated our children as disposable. It was difficult even to prohibit factory child labor, which faced serious resistance from the courts. Some states are even reversing that. (Agricultural child labor is still legal.)
I good deep dive is the You're Wrong About on Juvenile Justice (here on YouTube.)
TL:DR we have a whole subset of crime for kids, delinquency which is stuff that's a crime for kids to do, but not adults. And delinquency crimes are totally used as a pipeline to get kids into the prison industrial complex.
Also, our public education system has always had containment as a priority. When kids are not working but their parents are, they get into mischief, and thus we needed somewhere to cage them. This, and not edification, is why school is mandatory.
Children have fewer rights than adults do, and the law enforcement and the justice system takes full advantage of that to exploit kids.
This is the United States of America.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 18h
And train to enter into an economy that is autonomous from the neck down.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 14h
I think they just hate, nothing is protected even what they claim.
aReallyCrunchyLeaf@lemmy.ml · 41 pts · 22h
Abolish Facebook
mctoasterson@reddthat.com · 40 pts · 17h
Avoiding all meta apps is a good decision.
tal@lemmy.today · 35 pts · 23h
---Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of HTTP and HTML
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2002/mar/03/internetnews.observerfocus
The Guardian, 24 years ago
Insekticus@aussie.zone · 31 pts · 22h
I'm terrified to think of what Oppenheimer did with the first A-bomb then...
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 20h
"I am becum death, hnnnnnnngh!" --Oppenheimer
Blaster_M@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 18h
Why do I hear this quote in Mr. Regular voice?
tal@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 22h
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
It was a case of an unfortunate mistranslation due to the lack of awareness among historians about the thriving scalie scene at the Manhattan Project.
Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 22h
He unleashed his Little Boy all over Hir! (oshima)
raspirate@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17h
This comment reminded me of a cherished Little Joel video.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 19h
That porn was one of the big drivers for home VHS and online payments.
tal@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 17h
Yeah, honestly, you could go way further back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurine
For context, we figured out agriculture and started to move away from hunter-gatherer life about 12,000 years ago.
I have a guess.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 12h
Its a bit overstated. Sure, Sony blocked adult material from Betamax, but VHS simply had longer running time on the tapes, a larger library, and far cheaper hardware.
RockBottom@feddit.org · 31 pts · 15h
Good to know what the data centers get built for.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 22h
Surprise! Nazis do not only exploit the marginalized, but also find and exploit weaknesses is ordinary people.
DGen@piefed.zip · 23 pts · 14h
Bro what the fuck
CosmoNova@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 22h
I don‘t want to live on this planet anymore.
cinoreus@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 4h
Uk what sucks? We knew AI was capable of it from start. Hell, we even saw this happen on twitter. And yet what we did? Just let it happen. Gave a slap on the wrist to elon, and did nothing to address this.
I remember when I first saw nano banana I immediately deleted all my profile photos, and looked up on wayback machine to see if any of my photographs were archived or not. Yeah it's kinda late and it must be somewhere on some hidden archive, but atleast I've bought myself some time. Since that day I have maintained a strict policy amongst my friends and family that I'm not going to be in photographs that are going to be posted online.
Also I want to be clear, I'm not saying it's corporations responsibility alone. It's responsibility of individual people to not use it. This is freaking crime. But I'm pissed how world is trying to make it the new normal, and regulators have been too sluggish to respond to it.
JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 4h
What is nano banana? I'm afraid to Google it
MadBits@europe.pub · 12 pts · 3h
It's what they call my pecker.
JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 3h
That's unfortunate. Sorry about your dick, dude.
cinoreus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 4h
Google's image generation model. Yeah that's a horrible name.
JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 4h
Oh, I see. Yeah, terrible name.
QueenHawlSera@piefed.social · 10 pts · 15h
Well that's disgustingly and unapologetically pedophilliac
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 2h
Let's make toxic masculinity work for good.
"Real men don't use AI."
DisgruntledPelican@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 16h
This is definitely the kind of ai Trump would use if he was able to use a computer. He should ask his sons to teach him how to use it, they are so good with technology.
TheFogan@programming.dev · 6 pts · 14h
I don't think even his worse sycophants wouldn't have thought his truth social posts were a good idea. Depicting himself as jesus etc... So I do have to kind of conclude, at the very least someone has either set up something so easy he can use it, or he's able to use it on his own already.
Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 31m
So by viewing ads you get CSAM in your browser cache. Therefore you can be charged with 1 count of possession for each image saved. Failure to use an ad blocker is dangerous.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 14h
META android zuckerborg has succeeded in enslaving Human conservatives.
drmoose@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 18h
People are reading into this way too hard. This seems like an ad attack which is nothing new on Facebook. As you can target by user preference using: "oh this person from your feed but now naked" to bait a click is classic personalized ad attack. Facebook ads platform needs to be abolished altogether - it's incredibly unsafe.
Very deceiving article title by arstechnica, disappointing.
Rothe@piefed.social · 5 pts · 7h
Nothing of what you write absolves meta of the prime responsibility for this happening. They provided the platform where they not only let this happen but actively encourage it (and often pay for it).
drmoose@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 7h
I never said it did
Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 8h
We ALL know what should happen to pedophiles. Everyday they brag about their pedophilia to our face.
WE ALL KNOW AHY SHOULD HAPPEN TO PEDOPHILES.
EVEN CRIMINALS KNOW WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN TO PEDOPHILES
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 6h
Pedophilesrapistsmagic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1h
Most incarcerated people, at least state side, are charged with non-violent and non-sexual crimes.
You could make an argument for a lot of them not deserving to be there, and a lot more for only being there due to financial/societal circumstance.
Those are still people, many of them decent people.
Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1h
Agreed. That's even my point.
HubertManne@piefed.social · -15 pts · 23h
no. there is like tons of porn from hot women who are fine making their money that way.
velma@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 23h
They aren't running ads for CSAM because no one pays for it.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · -27 pts · 22h
That's where the money is.
I don't think it's just a small amount of men who like preteens and teenagers. I would wager it's most men. We've been imprisoning them for owning CP for decades now, yet the market is not shrinking. Various sources report CSAM is "exploding"...there's been an increase of something like 70% of these websites in the past few years.
CP with younger kids is also growing. Hundreds of thousands of websites host this material in USA, not even counting dark web (and that's just in the USA, only 20% of these sites are in USA).
How big is the market with those kind of numbers? I'm too stupid to figure it out, but I'd imagine that means many millions of men, tens of millions? It staggers the mind.
The internet has been fantastic in many ways, but it's revealed what many men are like in private, and it's a very ugly revelation.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/26/1051282/the-us-now-hosts-more-child-sexual-abuse-material-online-than-any-other-country/
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 20h
Do you honestly believe that billions of people are paedophiles?
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 12h
The Satanic Panic was largely about the US public learning (and being aghast) that CSA is epidemic in the US. At the time, one in three women surveyed were sexually abused as kids. (There are several good deep dives on the Satanic Panic. I recommend the webcast series by Sarah Marshall.)
At the time, we just couldn't handle the notion that CSA was being done by people the kids knew (parents, neighbors, friends, teachers, ministers and so on), so we made up the mythology of Satanic Ritual Abuse, that there were these vast rings of Satanists (not the TST kind or the LaVey kind) who were diddling kids as a way to worship the Christian devil, and gain magical power. Americans were not prepared to acknowledge that the abusers were among themselves, and so they bought into the story.
Now there are CSA rings that exist, and the Epstein child trafficking ring is among them, but it's a smaller circle. The thing about being high enough in the ownership class is that legality (or morality) no longer is a barrier to getting stuff you want. And so there's a preponderance of drug use, of sex tourism, of sending gay kids to conversion therapy (or troubled teens to abduction/reformation camps). And so there are industries to facilitate these needs, because the demand is there and they have money to spend.
Moreover, the global system of capitalism depends on contrived desperation. Workers who are skipping meals are more eager to take on jobs that pay meagerly and are dangerous and arduous. When food, shelter, healthcare, etc. is a right, suddenly workers cost a premium. The same thing applies to sex trafficking. After the collapse of the USSR, girls from those countries were glad to put up and put out if it meant a reliable meal ticket. Single-digit kids were on the streets peddling sexual favors for lunch money. This was a font Epstein tapped for his service staff. The more desperate the girls were, the less grooming they required.
Hopefully, this is the moment we figure it out, that as long as we have an owner class, we're going to have systems of contrived desperation to drive bonded servitude, including child trafficking. Especially if the owner class is exponentially more wealthy than the worker class. Maybe this is the moment we are able to collectively develop class consciousness, since it directly serves to protect our children.
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 22h
Many, yes. A plurality, probably. I don't know that it's most, but given the widespread abandon of anything resembling ethics of any kind in modern society, I think the situation is a lot worse than anyone wants to admit. Contrary to the Christian pearl clutchers, I don't think the moral decay has anything to do with religion, but there has been a moral decay, the call is just coming from inside the house more often than it is from outside.
db2@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 21h
Is also not exclusive to men.
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 17h
No, but it is more predominantly male. There's still certain natural and social consequences that keep some people from going full nihilistic hedonist. The collapse of manners, mores, social boundaries, dignity, and basic values is troubling but reality still has a way of making crossing certain boundaries dangerous and expensive for some people.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 15h
First of all, pedophilia is not exclusive to any gender. I think you need to examine your hateful biases.
Cytobit@piefed.social · -28 pts · 22h
This title is projecting the actions of a minority of men to slander all men. This is bigotry.
verily@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 33 pts · 22h
FYI: You are arguing with what the CSAM ad says. That's what the article is quoting here.
chewypoops@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 20h
"Yes officer, that's the guy" 🫵
blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 13h
Where does it say all men?