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It should be illegal for a number of reasons. One is a simple practical one: as the technology advances towards increasing levels of realism it'll become impossible for law enforcement to determine what material is "regular" CSAM versus what material is "generated" CSAM.
So, unless you're looking to repeal all laws against possession of CSAM, you'll have a difficult time crafting a cut-out for generated CSAM.
And honestly, why bother? What's the upside here? To have pedos get a more fulfilling wank to appease them and hope they won't come after your kids for real? I really doubt the premise behind that one.
Allowing for victimless crimes simply because a group is undesirable is a terrible precedent. We can't ban things just because they make us uncomfortable. Or because it makes law enforcements job easier.
I wouldn't even call it victimless, and we have all kinds of actual victimless crimes that are already illegal so I don't care about supposedly setting this "precedent" that has already been set a million times over.
And we should be undoing those laws
We aren't though, so it's frankly pretty odd that you're fixated on this one.
It's frankly pretty odd that Lemmy in general seems to be fairly pro-generated-CSAM. I'm betting you guys are just afraid of the feds finding your stashes.
EDIT: I basically get maybe three replies a week to things I post on here, except when I post something about being okay with generated CSAM or deepfake porn being illegal (in which case I get binders full of creeps in my inbox).
There it is. "If you disagree with me you're a pedo". You people always go back to that. I bet I could convince you to hack off your own arm as long as I said anyone with a left arm is a pedo.
I bet you've never convinced anyone of anything ever.
I'm not interested in going a hundred rounds with you on this. You haven't made any convincing arguments at all; you're making the type of shitty "anti-regulation" arguments that right libertarians have been making in bad faith in threads with me and others for decades.
And all to what end?
There's nothing much to be gained by allowing this filth to be legal, and enforceability of important law to be lost.
Bootlickers throughout history.
Rights are rights, and they should apply to everyone. Even the unsavory types.
Rights can have boundaries; freedoms can have restrictions. Take your toddler's understanding of law, rights, freedoms, along with your don't tread on me flag and kindly fuck off.
Freedom from thoughtcrime should have no restrictions. It should never be a crime simply to think or feel a certain way.
Victimless crimes should not be a thing. Anything that doesn't harm anyone should be legal.