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One of the admins at lemmy.blahaj.zone asked us to purge a community and all of
its users because they thought it was full of child sexual abuse material, aka
CSAM, fka kiddy porn. We assured them that we had checked this comm thoroughly
and we were satisfied that all of the models on it were of age. The admin then
demanded we purge the comm because they mistook it for CSAM, and claimed that
the entire point of the community was to make people think it was CSAM. We
vehemently disagreed that that was in fact the point of the community, but they
decided to defederate from us anyway. That is of course their choice, but we
will not purge our communities or users because someone else makes a mistake of
fact, and then lays the responsibility for their mistake at our feet. If someone
made a community intended to fool people into thinking it was kiddy porn, that
would be a real problem. If someone of age goes online and pretends – not
roleplays, but pretends with intent to deceive – to be a child and makes porn,
that is a real problem. Nobody here is doing that. One of the reasons we run our
instance the way that we do is that we want it to be inclusive. We don’t body
shame, and we believe that all adults have a right to sexual expression. That
means no adult on our instance is too thin, fat, bald, masculine, old, young,
cis, gay, etc., to be sexy, and that includes adults that look younger than some
people think they should. Everyone has a right to lust and to be lusted after.
There’s no way to draw a line that says “you can’t like adult people that look
like X” without crossing a line that we will not cross.
Sounds a little like letting terrorists dictate how you live.
Also again, to reiterate, there is no pedo content on that community.
Unfortunately, terrorists do dictate how we live if enough people don’t stand up for us and other vulnerable minority groups.
I’m not convinced de-federating from a porn instance does any of that unfortunately.
“We don’t negotiate with terrorists” is a good motto in movies, but in reality we negotiate with terrorists all the time, because lives are more important than pride.
The truth of reality is that compromise is the best way to find peaceful coexistence between people. The trick is to find the balance where you don’t give up too much without getting anything in return. Sadly it’s often hard to find that balance, and trial and error is often the most effective method, because so few people are willing to just discuss their insecurities and find an equitable compromise.
I mean, welcome to being queer. My sister basically has to live like that or otherwise she gets arrested or possibly murdered. The terrorist more or less do dictate her life.
Like I understand the frustration of being defederated, especially over an accusation as heavy as this. But I can’t blame the bahaj team either for trying to be extra careful of making sure their community doesn’t become a target for anyone trying to demonize them. I believe you when you say the content is legal, but it’s not going to make a difference when someone like libsoftiktok screen cap adorableporn from the blajah instance and try to twist it into making them to be pedophiles. Also unless the OP makes it clear, it’s not like the pictures themselves can vouche for their age.
Lemmynsfw enforces a policy to add age verification to many (if not all) of the posts to keep illegal shit out of the door, if pictures of adult models are not enough, them adding a link to the posts already accomplishes that task.