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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'

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    Supporting CSAM should be treated like making CSAM. Down into the forgetting hole with them!
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    Lvxferre [he/him]
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    Nobody here is supporting CSAM. Learn to read, dammit.
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      Did Covid-19 make everyone lose their minds? This isn't even about being cruel or egotistical. This is just a stupid thing to say. Has the world lost the concept of PR??? Genuinely defending 𝕏 in the year 2026... for Deepfake porn including of minors!!???? From the Fortnite company guy???
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      For some reason Epic studios just let Tim Sweeney say the most insane things. If I was a shareholder I'd want someone to take his phone off him.
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      • ? Guest
        *sigh* I'll get my boycotting tools.
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        Not that there's an awful lot to boycott. I'm trying to think what the last majorly popular title they released was that wasn't aimed at kids. Public gears of War about a decade ago. At this point I don't think I'm boycotting them as much as forgetting they exist.
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        • S sunsofold@lemmings.world
          I'm no fan of banning this or that particular platform (it's like trying to get rid of cheeseburgers by banning McDonalds; the burgers are still available from all the other burger chains and all the people who use the one will just switch to others) but this is a hilariously wrong way to get to the right answer.
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          The difference here is that the content is explicitly illegal in almost every jurisdiction in the world. And it's not as if Twitter (I'm not calling it x) is a niche platform that regulators may not have yet noticed. It's a huge company that's doing very illegal things very much out in the open. That might fly in fascist land USA but I don't see why the rest of the world should put up with it.
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            Not that there's an awful lot to boycott. I'm trying to think what the last majorly popular title they released was that wasn't aimed at kids. Public gears of War about a decade ago. At this point I don't think I'm boycotting them as much as forgetting they exist.
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            I saw someone suggesting mass downloading and uninstalling and downloading again all of the free games they've claimed over the years
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              For those who aren’t doing this yet, get in losers, we’re going 0.0.0.0.-ing. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2987082604
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              • spacecowboy@lemmy.caS spacecowboy@lemmy.ca
                Who else just did a search on the Epstein files for "Tim Sweeney"? I didn't find anything on [jmail](https://www.jmail.world/), but there's still a lot that haven't been released, and a lot of stuff is still redacted.
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                Man I just ran into 3 site blockages trying to open this. Somebody REALLY doesn’t want this to be read.
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                  From making CSAM? Makes you wonder about this Sweeny guy.
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                  • M mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
                    I'm making an explicit argument about the purpose of the term, as a necessary component of dealing with some of the worst crimes imaginable. I didn't figure I'd ever have to explain to someone why *abusing a human child* is fundamentally different from and worse than drawing on top of a fuckin' JPEG. If y'all manage to stomp the meaning out of "CSAM," the same way y'did for "CP," we're gonna be right back here, where there's some bespoke term for the visual evidence of actual assault that physically occurred, yet people insist that a fictional rendering is-too VEOAATPO. Diluting the impact of these terms is antithetical to protecting children. That stupid Horses game had people lobbing the term "CSAM" at it... for a game you can buy on GOG. If you can casually say "I bought some CSAM at Walmart the other day," then the term's not doing its fucking job, describing the kind of imagery you go straight to jail for.
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                    >I didn't figure I'd ever have to explain to someone why *abusing a human child* is fundamentally different from and worse than drawing on top of a fuckin' JPEG. Holy shit. You don’t. Stop inventing arguments and read what the fuck I’m writing. Answer _those_ questions. What advantage does having unique terms for real and AI content confer? Answer in one sentence.
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                      Yes, it certainly comes across as you arguing for the opposite since you above, reiterated >The real thing to talk about is the presence or absence of a victim. Which has never been an issue. It has never mattered in CSAM if it's fictional or not. It's the depiction that is illegal.
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                      Is it so hard to admit that you misunderstood the comment ffs? It is painfully obvious to everyone.
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                      • Lvxferre [he/him]L Lvxferre [he/him]
                        I wish I was as composed as you. You're still calmly explaining things to that dumb fuck, while they move the goalposts back and forth: * first [they lie I was saying there were no victims](https://sh.itjust.works/post/53258921/23148352); * then they backpedal and say ["It doesn’t matter if there’s a victim or not. It’s the depiction of CSA that is illegal."](https://sh.itjust.works/post/53258921/23154046); * then they backpedal *again* and say what boils down to ["talking about morals bad! Also I'll talk about MY morals. I don't see moral difference when people are harmed and when they're not"](https://sh.itjust.works/post/53258921/23159319) (inb4 I'm abridging it) All of that while they're still pretending to argue the same point. It reminds me a video from the Alt-Right Playbook, called ["never play defence"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmVkJvieaOA&list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ&index=3): make dumb claim, waste someone else's time expecting them to rebuke that dumb claim, make another dumb claim, waste their time again, so goes on.
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                        unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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                        Its good training for arguing with real life people at least. Because coming up with a good comeback quickly is hard when you have never formulated your thoughts about a subject properly. I think often people misunderstand things at first and then when someone points out their mistake, they realize that they were wrong, but dont want to admit it, so they just double down. I have been that person before too tho...
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                          Talking about morals and morality is how you end up getting things like abortion banned. Because some people felt morally superior and wanted to enforce their superior morality on everyone else. There's no point in bringing it up. If you need to bring up morals to argue your point. You've already failed. But please do enlighten me. Because personally. I don't think there's a moral difference between depicting "victimless" CSAM and CSAM containing a real person. I think they're both, morally, equally awful. But you said there's a major moral difference? For you maybe.
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                          unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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                          If you seriously think that there is no moral difference between someone being raped and them not being raped then maybe you should be in prison for all our safety.
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                          • Lvxferre [he/him]L Lvxferre [he/him]
                            Nobody here is supporting CSAM. Learn to read, dammit.
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                            He implicitly is.
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                              If there is one gate that definitely needs keeping, it is the kindergarten's gate. Don't let those creeps get away with it...
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                                That's not even what gatekeeping means. Unless he's trying to stand up for the universal right to participate in the child porn fandom.
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                                • shaggysnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneS shaggysnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
                                  We all live in a two tier justice system. The one tier is for the capital class. Generally, as long as they don't commit crimes against the government or others in the capital class. These offenders get the slap on the wrist justice system. The Government had enough evidence between witnesses and documentary evidence from the Epstein files to atleast open investigations and charge some of the people. The only people to be arrested and charged were Epstein and Maxwell. It took a long time before either of them faced any serious consequences for their actions. Everyone else gets the go fuck yourself justice system.
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                                  You know those signs at roller coasters that say "you must be this tall to ride"? The US is that, except the sign says "you must be this rich to play".
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                                    He implicitly is.
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                                    They mistook your comment as disagreeing with their take on how there are real victims of Grok's porn and CSAM and saying that they themselves were supporting CSAM, rather than saying that you agree and were saying Sweeney is supporting CSAM.
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                                      There's this old adage, "never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity". Tim Sweeney is *very* ignorant. However, he's also pretty malicious. His fedoraèd waffling should probably be taken exactly for what it is.
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                                        Did Covid-19 make everyone lose their minds? This isn't even about being cruel or egotistical. This is just a stupid thing to say. Has the world lost the concept of PR??? Genuinely defending 𝕏 in the year 2026... for Deepfake porn including of minors!!???? From the Fortnite company guy???
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                                        geedubhayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                                        > Did Covid-19 make everyone lose their minds? Every day further convinces me we all died of COVID, and this is The Bad Place.
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                                          this guy is out of his mind
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