A 24-year-old man in Norway was arrested for playing the Japanese visual novel Dorei to no Seikatsu. The case sparks debate over Norwegian laws treating explicit animations as illegal material.
Dismissing pedophilic hentai as “cartoon drawings” is exactly the kind of behavior that promotes the Nazi Bar for pedophiles phenomenon I mentioned in my post. Stop making safe spaces for pedophiles.
To address your reply, I don’t think those actions are mutually exclusive. Both are CSAM and should be treated as such.
I’m not arguing against banning the hentai from websites or stores or whatever.
Police resources are limited. CSAM is rampant online. How many abused children have been made to wait for rescue while cops and the court were busy going after the guy who looks at cartoons?
I listened to the Daily podcast back in 2019 where Michael Babaro said there is so much CSAM online that the authorities had to prioritize infants 1 and under. So imagine my surprise to see resources and time spent going after drawings.
This guy wasn’t nailed on the CSAM game alone. The game is an indicator that he’s a person who is going to be consuming other CSAM.
Of course there should be more resources dedicated to preventing child abuse. That’s the issue, and not one likely to be addressed, in the US, while the highest office in the nation is filled by a pedophile. But this case didn’t occur in the US and the prioritization of which CSAM to remove first shouldn’t be a discussion, but rather it should be the allocation of more resources.
It’s not “just drawings”. It’s still child sexual abuse materials.
This guy wasn’t nailed on the CSAM game alone. The game is an indicator that he’s a person who is going to be consuming other CSAM.
I’m going to make the, possibly incorrect, assumption that it’s more drawings of CSAM. If I’m wrong though then he should obviously be locked away.
That’s not to say drawings of CSAM aren’t disgusting or should be allowed online, absolutely no website should be hosting that stuff.
But this case didn’t occur in the US and the prioritization of which CSAM to remove first shouldn’t be a discussion, but rather it should be the allocation of more resources.
You can say ‘more resources needed’, but in austerity brained Europe, and tax averse US that’s not going to happen.
In a world where authorities are letting 5 years year olds being tortured slide to protect the infants being tortured. There is a pretty clear hierarchy of priorities there.
My concern is that going after this person engaging in CSAM of drawings was easy, and going after the ones engaging with real children was difficult due to encrypted distribution channels. We’re letting the big fish rub rampant and focusing on the smaller easier to catch fish.
I can see your point and perhaps I’m too idealistic to think the relevant authorities can walk and chew gum at the same time, but I am admittedly idealistic.
Dismissing pedophilic hentai as “cartoon drawings” is exactly the kind of behavior that promotes the Nazi Bar for pedophiles phenomenon I mentioned in my post. Stop making safe spaces for pedophiles.
To address your reply, I don’t think those actions are mutually exclusive. Both are CSAM and should be treated as such.
I’m not arguing against banning the hentai from websites or stores or whatever.
Police resources are limited. CSAM is rampant online. How many abused children have been made to wait for rescue while cops and the court were busy going after the guy who looks at cartoons?
I listened to the Daily podcast back in 2019 where Michael Babaro said there is so much CSAM online that the authorities had to prioritize infants 1 and under. So imagine my surprise to see resources and time spent going after drawings.
This guy wasn’t nailed on the CSAM game alone. The game is an indicator that he’s a person who is going to be consuming other CSAM.
Of course there should be more resources dedicated to preventing child abuse. That’s the issue, and not one likely to be addressed, in the US, while the highest office in the nation is filled by a pedophile. But this case didn’t occur in the US and the prioritization of which CSAM to remove first shouldn’t be a discussion, but rather it should be the allocation of more resources.
It’s not “just drawings”. It’s still child sexual abuse materials.
I’m going to make the, possibly incorrect, assumption that it’s more drawings of CSAM. If I’m wrong though then he should obviously be locked away.
That’s not to say drawings of CSAM aren’t disgusting or should be allowed online, absolutely no website should be hosting that stuff.
You can say ‘more resources needed’, but in austerity brained Europe, and tax averse US that’s not going to happen.
In a world where authorities are letting 5 years year olds being tortured slide to protect the infants being tortured. There is a pretty clear hierarchy of priorities there.
My concern is that going after this person engaging in CSAM of drawings was easy, and going after the ones engaging with real children was difficult due to encrypted distribution channels. We’re letting the big fish rub rampant and focusing on the smaller easier to catch fish.
I can see your point and perhaps I’m too idealistic to think the relevant authorities can walk and chew gum at the same time, but I am admittedly idealistic.