Kitsu-Negi 

Moderator
Gayest of Gay Foxes
Even if the American Laws change to more closely resemble the laws of Canada, France, United Kingdom, Australia, Italy and Switzerland (the countries that have banned “Problematic” cartoon artwork) — a cartoon drawing of a fictional bipedal talking animal will NEVER be logically / factually equal to Genuine CSEM of a Real Human Person who exists In Real Life….
No more than a bag of Vegan Chik-N Nuggets could ever be logically / factually equal to a bag of ACTUAL Chicken Nuggets… care to take a guess as to WHY they aren’t equal?
One is made of plants and requires NO harm to be done to an animal in its manufacturing process.
And the other one does! …. (For the record, I’m not even a Vegan, this is purely for the sake of argument).
Now, apply the same logic to cartoon art… The 2D hand drawn art DOES NOT require the harm of an Actual Human Person as part of its manufacturing process…. and the Genuine Actual Factual CSEM does….
This is why they will never be logically / factually / rationally / legitimately equal….
Even if American Law changes to be more like the other countries….
The ONLY way that it is “logically” & “factually” equal is if the artist is basing their drawings on REAL people…
F.A. can ban whatever kind of artwork it wants to, but F.A. is NOT the United States Government, and I care way more about the general law and how it affects EVERY website, way - way - way more than I care about F.A.
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18 U.S. Code § 2256 — Section 9
18 U.S. Code § 2256 — Section 11
1 U.S. Code § 8 …… (Defines what “Person” means)
Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition …….. (Defines CURRENT U.S. LAW, not outdated 2003 law).
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The key wording in all of these is “Virtually Indistinguishable” from an ACTUAL person….
Or at the very least BASED on an Actual Person…. THEN it becomes illegal under U.S. Law.
Keep in mind, the Protect Act of 2003 was ruled unconstitutional and replaced by the CPPA…..
Knee-Jerk Reactions and screaming at people on Twitter cannot magically make Yiffy Art of Tails and Sonic count as actual, factual, genuine CSEM…. Tails and Sonic are NOT real people…. just like how a Plushie is NOT a real animal, just like how Vegan Nuggets are NOT made of actual chickens…..
And sure, you can certainly pull the “but what is that Vegan Nugget trying to simulate?” argument, but what it is trying to simulate is far less important than WHAT IT ACTUALLY IS MADE OF….. you can TEST those Vegan Nuggets by sending them off to a lab for analysis… to PROVE what they are made of….
I would imagine the same kinds of tests exist for testing drawings (LIKE LOOKING AT THEM WITH YOUR EYES AND REALIZING THAT IT’S A CARTOON and not a PERSON)…..
As for hyper-realistic pencil sketch drawings with no hint of cartoon exaggeration, if it looks like a Human Person, then it passes as a Human Person, which makes it qualify as CSEM…. the same hyper-realism would apply to A.I. Generated images trained on Real People, which means they also count.
Anyone with two functioning eyeballs and a working brain can tell that a Cartoon Furry Drawing looks NOTHING at all like a Real Flesh N’ Blood Human Being who exists in Real Life….. despite what Angry Delusional Twitter Users have spent years and years brainwashing you into believing….
Unless you have a SEVERE case of Oneirataxia (google that term) – you are 100% capable of telling the difference between Fictional Cartoon Furry Artwork and photos of an Actual Human Being……
False Equivalence Fallacies and Moral Equivalence Fallacies be damned!
