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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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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.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.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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Nobody here is supporting CSAM. Learn to read, dammit.
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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.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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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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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???> 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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IMO commenters here discussing the definition of CSAM are missing the point. Definitions are working tools; it's fine to change them as you need. The real thing to talk about is the presence or absence of a victim. Non-consensual porn victimises the person being depicted, because it violates the person's rights over their own body — including its image. Plus it's ripe material for harassment. This is still true if the porn in question is machine-generated, and the sexual acts being depicted did not happen. Like the sort of thing Grok is able to generate. This is what Timothy Sweeney (as usual, completely detached from reality) is missing. And it applies to children *and adults*. The only difference is that adults can still consent to have their image shared as porn; children cannot. As such, porn depicting children will be always non-consensual, thus victimising the children in question. Now, someone else mentioned Bart's dick appears in the Simpsons movie. The key difference is that Bart is not a child, ***it*** is not even a person to begin with, ***it*** is a fictional character. There's no victim.What exactly have I lied about? I've never once tried to even insinuate that what grok is doing ok. Nor that it should be. What I've said. Is that it doesn't even matter if there are an actual real person being victimized or not. It's still illegal. No matter how you look at it. It's illegal. Fictional or not. Your example of Bart in the Simpsons movie is so far out of place I hardly know where to begin. It's NOT because he's fictional. Because fictional depictions of naked children in sexually compromised situations IS illegal. Though I am glad you don't have a dog. It would be real awkward for the dog to always be the smartest being in the house.
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Fuck! I misread you. Yes, you're right, *Tim Sweeney* is actually supporting CSAM. Sorry for the misunderstanding, undeserved crankiness, and defensiveness; I thought you were claiming I was the one doing it.
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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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>Yes, it certainly comes across as you arguing for the opposite No, it does not. Stop being a liar.
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That's not what I said. How are you this stupid? I said I think they are both, equally morally reprehensible. They both belong in the very bottom of Dante's inferno.> 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. You called them "equally awful", so yes, that is what you said.
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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 yearsThat's a lot of interaction for a boycott, and I'm sure they would just ban your IP at some point. Of course there's always ways around that, but how much effort do you want to put into this boycott? The biggest impact you could have on them would be for everyone to go over to Steam OS which I don't believe they support. It would be hilarious if they were forced to add support in order to stay relevant. I don't think anything else would have much of an affect, because like I said their target demographic are kids, who don't really pay attention to this stuff.
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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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> 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. You called them "equally awful", so yes, that is what you said.
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