TL;DR;
Their wealthy, powerful handlers are working directly from the Ur-Fascist playbook to manipulate the isolate, keep them isolated, and keep them dependent on that small caste of unscrupulous wealthy, powerful handlers. "The world is burning" they say, while setting the fires "only we can save you".
Longer TL;DR;
Since wealth and power are the two sides of the same coin there is a relatively small caste of people (we're talking a fraction of 1% of the population) who are ultimately responsible for this. They know how to isolate people, and how to take advantage of that isolation, and all the right lies to tell and strings to pull to build up enough anger and fear to turn them irrationally against themselves... but against everyone else, too. Who benefits? Yep, that teeny tiny caste of rich, powerful handlers.
As a Firefox user I prefer Kagi. Google is the antithesis of everything Firefox is supposed to stand for. That said, Yahoo has always been horrible and, out of the options that ARE available, Yahoo was easily the absolute worst.
This is a very simple calculation for me. I follow the "golden rule of liberty", which can also be called the "harm principle."
That is, "your rights end where mine begin. my rights end where yours begin". Or, it is unethical to restrict anyone's freedoms/liberties (especially expression) if they are not inflicting harm on others (i.e. infringing on their rights).
Furthermore, I object to any level of subjective analysis of the "legality" of art. Ergo, the mindset of "I think this looks childish, therefore it is a child, therefore it is CP" is exceptionally unethical and should not be tolerated.
And moreso, all of this only muddies and minimizes the ACTUAL crime of abusing children and diverts resources away from protection of real, actual children all because of some inane moralizing over someone's artwork.
You are too hung up on "punishing the immoral" to realize that the ACTUAL need is "protecting the vulnerable" - and those two things are NOT the same.
Cancel. They don't deserve your business. They keep making worse and worse decisions that are more and more anti-consumer. Don't give them your money. Don't reward this behavior.
This kind of thing is the reason I've started moving completely away from Microsoft platforms, including Windows. Microsoft is getting more and more invasive and aggressive pushing advertising onto people in their own private spaces, and that is unacceptable.
Since I'm a PC gamer first and foremost, I don't use XBox... and after this, I won't. Ever. This was just MS dipping their toes in to see if they could get away with it.
Thankfully, with Valve continuing to rapidly improve Proton, just about any Windows game runs on Linux now with very little elbow grease. No Microsoft necessary.
Actual CSAM, depicting an actual crime against an actual child... or "someone drew dirty cartoons and I'm a moron who thinks dirty drawings are the same as one of the most heinous crimes imaginable - harming a vulnerable child"?
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You are thinking of beef. The Rich are full of bacteria and parasites and should be thoroughly cooked before consuming.