Recently on BSKY – There was a MASSIVE ban wave that targeted anyone who likes or interacts with accounts posting fictional cartoon Anime Loli/Shota Art as well as Cub Furry Art… BSKY Mods treat this FICTIONAL hand drawn cartoon content as if it is the exact same thing as CSEM, on a legal level and a moral / ethical level (and I have personally gotten emails sent to me from Bsky Moderation that says in their own words how they feel about this kind of artwork).
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sigh …. Look, I understand the need for a burgeoning social media platform like Blue Sky to put the clamp down on people who share ACTUAL ILLEGAL MATERIAL, as it presents a huge liability issue for them…. however, 2D FICTIONAL CARTOON ARTWORK IS NOT THE SAME AS CSEM…. for an image to qualify as CSEM, it MUST meet the requirement of either being (A) virtually indistinguishable from a real photographic image of a real human person, or (B) HAVE BEEN BASED ON A REAL PERSON….
Lewd cartoon rule 34 art of Tails and Sonic screwing does not count.
Lewd drawings of some non-existent fictional “loli” character do not count.
In France, Canada, UK, Australia? Yeah, it counts THERE, not in the U.S.A.
(but after the Project 2025 crap, who knows?????)
Ashcroft VS Free Speech Coalition says “persons of ordinary intelligence can tell the difference between a photo of a real human person and a FICTIONAL CARTOON DRAWING.”
But BSKY clearly does not care about Laws or Logic, instead they go by feelings and opinions and by whatever the loud screeching voices of Twitter and Tumblr tell them is “problematic.”
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Taking a “scorched earth” approach to this problem really is not fair.
Lumping people who draw or share FICTIONAL CARTOON ART in with actual criminals who trade genuine CSEM – IS NOT FAIR.
Many of the people whose accounts were affected RECEIVED NO EMAIL EXPLAINING THE REASON THEIR ACCOUNTS WERE TERMINATED….
SOME of the affected users were able to send an email directly to Bsky Moderation and file an appeal to get their accounts reinstated, but with an email sent back to them that basically accused them of being in cahoots with actual criminals who trade actual images of real human people… and a threatening “we’ll be watching you to see if you screw up again.”
So yeah, you file an appeal and get your account back, but if you happen to like a drawing that the BSKY Mods think is “problematic” – POOF, YOUR ACCOUNT GETS NUKED AGAIN…. so you’ll be walking on eggshells and trying your best NOT to click “like” on any kind of cartoon artwork that might be considered “problematic.”
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On top of this, Bsky is also doing Ghost Ban type regulation…
Comment too fast? Ghost Ban! Say the wrong words? Ghost Ban!
And YOU won’t know that you’re Ghost Banned, unless you go
hop on a secondary alt account to go CHECK your main account….
UGH!!! … They want to be Twitter so badly that
they are copying all of the BAD aspects…
