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Really? What was the mechanism by which this was enforced that was fundamentally different from, say, the police coming to someone's house and arresting them fo

by cowpig 3y ago

Really? What was the mechanism by which this was enforced that was fundamentally different from, say, the police coming to someone's house and arresting them for the possession of child pornography?

vorpalhex 3y ago
The ability to go in front of a judge and that the burden of proof is on your accuser, for one. Second, there are defenses to CSAM - it's not whatever the government feels is CSAM. The material has to actually be exploitative of children and for obscene purposes, it can't be a medical photo or a Nirvana album cover. Do you really not see a difference between a probibition on any speech not preapproved by the Whitehouse versus charging people for CSAM posession? This wasn't the Whitehouse post-hoc suing someone for hawking false covid cures. This was the Whitehouse saying unapproved messages could not be even discussed by private citizens on platforms.
- cowpig 3y ago
  > The ability to go in front of a judge We're commenting on the judgment. Made by judges. I'm going to stop responding here, this strategy of basing arguments in imagined alternative worlds of facts is not interesting.
  - vorpalhex 3y ago
    This only went in front of a judge because the Whitehouse was sued by Missouri and Louisiana. The Whitehouse is a defendant, not a plaintiff. None of the people censored have standing or were able to go in front of the judge.
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