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by content_sesh 1897 days ago
so because child porn and not-child-porn are both stored and transmitted as bytestreams from a hosting company's servers, you can't actually draw a distinction between them? is that where we're landing on this one?

"Playing opera on my stereo isn't a morality question, I'm just creating vibrations in the air, and I should not have to care what interpretations of those vibrations can exist when I play it at 4am with the dial cranked to 11"

can you see how playing semantic games to try to dodge responsibility for poor behavior can be irritating even in the best of circumstances?