• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    4 minutes ago

    I don’t know if people are just not recognizing the metric fuckton of nuance with this situation, or they’re being willfully ignorant. Either way, not my monkeys, not my circus.

  • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    So he’s politicising child abuse material now, and associating it with the political right. He’s not entirely incorrect, but it seems like he needs to think before he opens his idiot mouth.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      7 hours ago

      no, hes saying banning child porn is equivalent to “Censoring” political opponents=right wingers violating TOs.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    You know, if it was anything but Twitter, I could at least have an ounce of sympathy. I remember Tumblr getting a bunch of cheap heat over its active community of furry enthusiasts. Valve cracked down on a bunch of lewd games in their Steam Store, largely out of prudishness. Reddit’s been a notorious hub for revenge porn since forever, and its still been considered draconian to blank-ban the whole site.

    But pretty much everyone drew the line at CSAM. Hell, 4chan generally drew the line at CSAM. Sites that had virtually no moderation still managed to swing their tiny hammers at CSAM wherever it cropped up.

    Twitter seems to have fully embraced this shit with an enthusiasm that can only be described as satanic. Just really, nakedly, unapologetically evil. Maybe Sweeny just doesn’t get that, and he’s reflexively defending another billionaire from the oppressive hand of Big Government Regulation. Maybe the dude’s just a nounce and thinks CSAM is no big deal. Either way, someone needs to rub his nose in it until he gets the picture.

    • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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      16 hours ago

      Satan isn’t a pedo. There aren’t children in hell. These people are worse then Satan.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        13 hours ago

        Satan isn’t a pedo.

        I wouldn’t hang my hat on this. Satanists have as much a problem with pedophilia as every other branch of the Christian faith.

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          9 hours ago

          Shows what you know about Satanists.

          Satanists don’t believe in Satan. They call themselves Satanists because it annoys the Bible bashes who likes to hide behind religion as an excuse for being terrible people. You know, the types that like to say “we are good Christian conservative god-fearing family” and leave you to fill in the missing pieces.

          Satanists advocate being good people and helping each other precisely because there isn’t a god to enforce this stuff. Satanists aren’t Christian and they don’t believe in God.

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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            20 minutes ago

            Aleister Crowley believed there were three forms of sex magick; autoerotic, heterosexual, and homosexual, (Drury, 2012). He claimed that by performing specific sexual rituals, including sado masochistic sex rituals on young boys, one could achieve financial gains and personal success, (Drury, 2012). For Crowley, the sex rituals were a sacrament and ingesting the fluids from sex and certain biological functions, such as using menstrual blood in rituals, would imbue him with knowledge, power, and success, (Drury, 2012). Certainly, in creating a cult of personality with a devoted following and in being an influencer through many generations, he can be considered successful

            Hardly a secret

  • lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    … censor all of their political opponents

    … ’ child pornography?

    To be clear: X is the political opponent of anyone who values democracy. As such, it can be fairly said that this IS an attempt to censor my opponents’ … child pornography. I do not object to ‘censoring’ CSAM. Tim Sweeney thinks child porn is free speech (pcgamer - contact me for rights to this far superior headline). When X was just vile hate speech, propaganda, and misinformation, the free speech argument prevailed. This is not the same.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      Even before Grok, the moment Elongated Muskrat took over, reporting actual CSAM become much harder. But yeah, if you value democracy, you want Xitter to be gone.

  • mechoman444@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    I oppose CSAM and child abuse.

    -Tim Sweeny.

    HOW FUCKING HARD IS IT TO SAY THAT!

    Christ on a stick! Weren’t pedo’s like the worse of the worse?! When did they start getting a voice in daily regular discourse!

    Son of a bitch!

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      19 hours ago

      Not only that, but the side of politics which regularly fantasizes publicly about murdering pedophiles is awful quiet about the fact that the vast majority of offenders come from their ranks.

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        18 hours ago

        I kinda wonder.

        Sexual abuse is often more about power than about physical gratification.

        Child abuse of this nature is pretty universally decried as one of the most heinous crimes.

        So after these rich pieces of shit get away with breaking all the other laws on the books, are they going after kids for the thrill of feeling untouchable by any standard of law and morality?

        And to further that, I wonder if there’s almost some sort of sick initiation that involves this sort of abuse. Once you’re in “the group”, they can out you for all the sick and illegal shit you’ve been involved with so you can’t turn on anyone else. This also follows tactics commonly used by Russia etc.

        Given all the stuff that’s happened and turned out to be projection, what’s the chance there actually was some sort of pizzeria based child-dungeon, but operated by the same people throwing out accusations?

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          But this guy is being open about it. Apparently being a paedophile isn’t blackmail material for CEOs. Elon does it, the president does it, thousands of people on Twitter do it. Goddamn.

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        19 hours ago

        Because it’s easier for these psychopaths to believe that there’s a cage of children in some random pizza restaurant basement rather than believe a billionaire has a group of children in their mcmansions.

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      20 hours ago

      Anything political has slid so far from the typical right–left continuum that the ruler class’s inner evil is plain for everyone to see.

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        19 hours ago

        Is it? Is it really? Is there some kind of lizard person level conspiracy out there that our entire ruling elite are just populated by pedophiles?

        Is it some kind of pathology when somebody reaches a certain level of financial Freedom and power that they immediately find themselves attracted to the children?

        What is happening to this world!

    • anon_8675309@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      Well, the left was like, y’all chill, trans are people, respect that.

      The GOP was like, hold my beer.

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    9 hours ago

    Is it just me, or does his surname work perfectly as a slang for small dick?

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    19 hours ago

    My god, the outspoke billionaire pedophile club just keeps growing.

    Just can’t fucking help themselves.

    … though… that… does makes sense, that you would lack self-inhibition… if you were a pedophile.

    Hooray clown world!

  • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
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    19 hours ago

    I knew him from way back in the good old days of ZZT and epic pinball.

    Why do many of these guys end up being goddamn weirdos?

    • ByteOnBikes@discuss.online
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      19 hours ago

      Asbestos. Lead. Microplastics.

      They’re not to blame directly, but they’re letting their shit thoughts run wild.

    • Taleya@aussie.zone
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      18 hours ago

      It’s not about twitter. It’s about grok. Please do not knock the spinning AI plates.

  • horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de
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    18 hours ago

    I have a feeling that after this is all over there’s going to be some kind of McCarthyist search to out all of the pedos in business and politics.

    I mean in a sense I hope there will be one in order to rid the world of the pedo cabal, but there are always false positives in such moral panics.