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by BlueTemplar 172 days ago
It is concerning to me that there are now international (Western ?) guidelines[1] (2016) and conventions that don't seem to realise the consequences of taking a hard stance on the combination of three of their points :

- a child is any person under the age of 18 years

- including non-explicit sexual activities

- any material that visually depicts a child [engaged in those]

Am I missing something, or have they 'criminalised' a quite large chunk of art ?!?

[1] https://ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Terminology-gui...

Then we have these guidelines embedded in automated systems (sometimes with people as 'cogs'), add a pinch of pressure by puritans in power of various stripes, and a decade later we end up with payment networks forcing platforms to kick out artists even when what they are doing is not illegal in their respective jurisdictions !