It’s mostly to distinguish actual photographs of actual children from drawings of fictional characters. Unfortunately, the same dolts who threw around the previous term are just as glib about throwing around this one, and routinely rail against “drawn CSAM.”
It is fundamentally impossible to draw CSAM. You cannot abuse children who do not exist. The entire goddamn point of saying “CSAM” is to distinguish doodles we may find distasteful to the point of endorsing censorship, versus evidence of rape.
That’s strange to me, because Child Porn sounds revolting to me but CSAM sounds like something I can treat with aspirin.
It’s mostly to distinguish actual photographs of actual children from drawings of fictional characters. Unfortunately, the same dolts who threw around the previous term are just as glib about throwing around this one, and routinely rail against “drawn CSAM.”
It is fundamentally impossible to draw CSAM. You cannot abuse children who do not exist. The entire goddamn point of saying “CSAM” is to distinguish doodles we may find distasteful to the point of endorsing censorship, versus evidence of rape.
CSAM is a pretty sterile term so I can see where that feeling comes from.