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Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law.

Yeah, we’re all mad, fuck the suits and all that.

But why does the distinction between “real-world adult material” and “creative, non-realistic”, “artistic, animated works” that “do no harm” matter? Last time I checked, realistic adult material can be just as artistic, and the harm done by negligently letting children watch it seems comparable.

Are they in favour of age verification for “uncreative, realistic” pornography, or is the real distinction just between real-life and online?

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beveradb@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I interpreted it as “can’t possibly be doing harm to the people in the video” - eg as much of mainstream porn can do - since there are none if everything is animated fiction

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- Dutczar@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Admittedly, I’m pretty sure UK did this with the underage consumers in mind, not the industry actors, for whom both sorts of porn would have a similiar impact.
  
  Personally though, the constant repeating to me sounded comedic and they were making fun of how seriously we’re taking nude drawings with this, which sounds silly even if it’s justified.
  
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- Goretantath@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  And that is the correct interpretation.
  
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arararagi@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It’s because some arguments against porn says the actors involved have it bad. Something that can’t happen in a drawing.

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brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I think it’s more about the legal distinction between drawn and ‘real’ porn.

TBH “negligently letting children watch it” seems like a sensless statement to me. The onus should be on parents to filter their kids’ internet environments, not literally every accessible site on the open internet (which are never going to comply with a patchwork of age verificaiton regs).

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mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yeah, the “it’s just cartoons so it’s not harmful” argument falls flat pretty quickly. There are much better arguments to be made for why the law is dumb.

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markpaskal@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It’s the same schtick you hear from pedophiles in defense of their child sex dolls and it’s unsurprising to see it coming from rule34 in particular considering they serve up a lot of that content in cartoon form.

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