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Yeah so, someone just straight up posted child porn on Lemmy Shitposts. Jesus christ this is getting out of hand.

Sick fucking bastards

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[–] exterstellar@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not saying you're wrong and I'm not a lawyer either so I don't know, but that sounds pretty stupid for multiple reasons.

  1. How would any website moderator even be able to moderate their site and report it to the authority if just by reporting it they're confessing to doing something illegal. There would be nothing stopping people from posting it everywhere if there's no legal mechanism for reporting it.
  2. "Possession" a.k.a ownership is a huge part of the law. You can't just say that just because I'm aware of something existing, I'm in possession of it. By that logic I can go to any jewelry store, look at a diamond and it becomes mine.
[–] VonReposti@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago

Thing is, it doesn't get reported unless it's the police doing their own investigation. The law is absurd on that point and needs to be changed so "possrsion" doesn't mean "stumbled upon it by pure coincidence"

So I entirely agree with you, it's just hard to change such laws because who wants to be the politician who suggested to relax a CSAM law. It is a touchy subject here since child pornography technically was legal for a few years after pornography was legalised.

[–] VonReposti@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago

Thing is, it doesn't get reported unless it's the police doing their own investigation. The law is absurd on that point and needs to be changed so "possrsion" doesn't mean "stumbled upon it by pure coincidence"

So I entirely agree with you, it's just hard to change such laws because who wants to be the politician who suggested to relax a CSAM law. It is a touchy subject here since child pornography technically was legal for a few years after pornography was legalised.