Do you know why we have possession laws against CSAM in the first place? It's because people buy and sell abuse material in underground markets, it's another way they profit off the abuse of children.
This is nothing like drug possession laws (which are stupid) because the product is literally a direct product of the abuse of children that many of the people in possession likely helped the criminals in order to obtain it (either directly or by paying them for it).
So yes in this case it does make sense to criminally charge people for possession of something like this considering the direct connection CSAM has to child trafficking and child sexual abuse and when you defend it by going against possession laws it makes it seem like you support these criminals.
Amazing, you think that being against pedophiles makes someone a bigot, do you think the same applies to being against Nazis as well? Paradox of tolerance much?
There's a very clear difference between the arguments you cited and pedophilia, which is that pedophilia causes physical and psychological harm to the child who is the victim and also is extremely psychologically harmful to the people who witness such event or the abuse material from it. I don't think you realize how severe this is or you wouldn't be trying to defend such heinous acts right now.
Sign-ups are manual approval applications, no more automated sign-ups from them, if they have existing accounts and target another community it'll be closed as well and those accounts banned, there isn't a stream of new accounts though because all accounts going forward need to be manually approved.
Ah I see what's going on, you're salty that they closed the shitposting community so you're trolling here, going so far as to compare gays and jews to pedophillia (which is extremely bigoted and incorrect) or downplay the horrific acts that led to the closing of that community and registrations to protect the rest of the Instance's well being.
Also I'd appreciate it if you didn't edit what I said when quoting me, thanks.
Maybe you could start with making pull-requests to help and maybe also writting them an application on Matrix. I'm not being snarky just pointing out that it's easier to help than you might think.
This is a serious problem we are discussing, please don't use this as an opportunity to inject bad-faith arguments.
Edit: Wow your post history is a lot of the same garbage, there is no point in attempting to reason with you, you seem to be defending the act of CSAM or just trolling (really awful and severe trolling I might add, CSAM isn't something to joke or troll about).
What misinformation, are you trying to imply that the known instance wasn't defederated for hosting or allowing the hosting of illegal content, do you think they weren't at all or do you think loli is acceptable and not CSAM, because FYI opinions may vary but the law is clear CSAM even fictional is illegal to produce, host, or consume.
There was an Instance (check bottom of instances page, it's the most recent one in blocked as of writing this) that had rules allowing loli (drawn CSAM) which was defederated very recently. I originally made a post about it on support but deleted it because there was a lot of backlash (backlash against defederating a loli CSAM instance 😒) so I just messaged about it privately, not just to lw admins but to many others as well across lemmy.
Do you know why we have possession laws against CSAM in the first place? It's because people buy and sell abuse material in underground markets, it's another way they profit off the abuse of children. This is nothing like drug possession laws (which are stupid) because the product is literally a direct product of the abuse of children that many of the people in possession likely helped the criminals in order to obtain it (either directly or by paying them for it).
So yes in this case it does make sense to criminally charge people for possession of something like this considering the direct connection CSAM has to child trafficking and child sexual abuse and when you defend it by going against possession laws it makes it seem like you support these criminals.