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OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Commie NedFlanders posted:

Okay what if they decided to put those up on Instagram or YouTube or their own privately hosted website? Kids are all about the likes these days what if they decide they can get a lot lf attention by sharing it freely with people?

I mean morally that's only really reprehensible if they're posting other people's naked pictures and for the same reason it would be if they were both adults.

You could just delete it without putting the person in jail though, unless again they're posting nude photos of other people which is pretty wrong.

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OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Commie NedFlanders posted:

How is it morally acceptable for children to publish sexually naked and/or explicit images of themselves?

Because you can't exactly molest yourself.

I mean you could, I suppose, argue that it's morally objectionable to supply paedophiles with that content I guess? But that seems a bit flimsy. Not enough to merit much in the way of punishment.

You should remove the content and explain to the kid why they shouldn't do it, certainly. Because we assume kids aren't quite informed enough to make that judgement for thesmselves and you should protect them from the consequences of what they may later consider to be a mistake, but I'm finding it hard to really build a moral argument against it. What's the kid done? Abused themselves? Do you get them to show you on the doll where they touched themselves? Testify against themselves in court? The argument against exploitation doesn't translate properly when you do it to yourself.

Unless you believe that sexually explicit material is inherently wrong, the reason age of consent laws exist is to prevent children from being exploited, which, well, you can't exploit yourself. You can make mistakes you later regret, but mistakes aren't immoral. Just best avoided if possible.

Commie NedFlanders posted:

Of course, but what stops them from doing it again an again in their search for attention?

Also, what does it mean if it's not criminal for them to publish that garbage, but it because they are doing so, it comes up on my rss fees or newsfeed or wherever.

Will people be held criminally liable for seeing these obscene images, lumped into the same group as Jared from subway, while the producers and distributors have no consequences?

If you're genuinely worried about being maliciously forced to view child pornography by devious exhibitionist teenagers I have to tell you that sounds like a pre-emptive really flimsy defence.

Perhaps the solution would be requiring a need to establish intent to view in the prosecution of that particular crime? Like, if it pops up in your RSS feed, whatever. If you keep accidentally downloading all this child porn then that's kind of suspicious.

OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Apr 6, 2016

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I don't want the first AI developed to be designed for the purpose of appreciating child pornography.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I kind of agree with the idea that if it's legal to gently caress someone it should probably also be legal to possess naked pictures of them.

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