@rufustheduck @beecycling "The Internet is made of cats..."

@SCALETHEORY X, and you can find articles about the abuse images with Grok and commentary with ease if you have a quick look. Men are prompting it thousands of times in just minutes, directing it to unclothe women, children and babies.

(apols, your reply wasn't showing at the time)

@copacetic @andrewstroehlein my point is it is not 'porn'. Pornography is adult-produced media for adults. The second anyone involves children it stops being porn and becomes criminal abuse.

CSAM is two syllables. It is widely used. I'd say, do better.

@Tooden well, per legal definitions, not all sexual abuse is rape. So I'm not sure how helpful it is to bundle various things under that term that has (relatively) clear and important applicability already. Hope that makes sense. I don't want to go looking up various things about it right now, but.

When the 'sex trafficking' discussions are going on, I do tend to bring up rape - because there is no 'sex' with trafficked people, since consent requires no threat or coersion or force. And trafficked people face all or most of those.

@Tooden that doesn't cover materials produced fearing or depicting those acts, which is why the term CSAM exists (I didn't make it up)

@andrewstroehlein *child sexual abuse material (CSAM)

Sex requires consent
Children cannot consent
Sexual imagery featuring any child is abuse material, not porn. There is no 'child porn'.

I think this is important because phrases like this, and 'sex trafficking' or 'sex pest' minimise the crime and obscure perpetrators. We can and should hold media and commentators to account.

Overhearing a staff member at hotel:
'No, I'm not well... Got some virus. Dragged myself out of bed this morning but yesterday...'
Guest/other staff: 'Well done you!'

NO
NOT WELL DONE

Stop praising people for openly and recklessly spreading illnesses.
I don't care if you knew it wasn't flu because you didn't have the all-over aches. There's still horrible shit you've probably now infected a bunch of people with.
Ugh.
#covidIsNotOver #wearAMask #StayAtHome (yes I know not everyone can afford to)