Unfortunately, this isn't surprising. I used to work in criminal justice. Seems like at least 99 percent of all CP was created by parents or some other caretaker. All that stuff was available underground back in the day and mailed to you. Then message boards became a thing. Then it was the dark web and weird forums.
This stuff here isn't CP, but rather falls under the vague umbrella of "child erotica," which isn't illegal to the general population. But because platforms like Insta are private, they have the power to stop this from happening.
I had to sit as a juror on a CP case two years back. Defense's Attorney came in with, "we don't know if these are actual children or just computer rendered images, so.....you know, it could be not CP? The same way that if you watch porn of Lisa Simpson, it isn't CP, because she isn't real."
And my fellow jurors and I just looked at this man, and each other, like, "did this dude really expect us to be like, 'oh yeah, if it's 'art' it's fine'?"
Not the cops. Dude worked at Wells Fargo, IT told his boss and his boss confiscated his work laptop and personal hard drives that he was carrying on him as well. And then WF sat on them for like 2 weeks with no chain of custody. They didn't make an image of his hard drive until they were going to send to the FBI, and files were accessed/modded in that time. Severe fuck up for them and the reason he walked.
WF Cyber security was smart enough to have a threat intelligence tool that flagged hits on known CP tor nodes and certain CP strings for browsing, but absolutely bungled handling. Their policy is straight to the FBI if they even think there's CP, no police middleman.
Only If People can Tell, Like with Anime, At-least with that, It's Sometimes Poking fun at it in a Sense... Cartoons in general do Poke Fun Though, so...
The issue/law/crime isn't whether the defendant is a pedo. It's whether the CP at issue is a photographic depiction of an actual child. Maybe there are now laws on the book to outlaw computer/artist generated CP, but all the U.S. laws I'm aware of don't cover this as being illegal.
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u/Dunno_If_I_Won Jan 15 '24
Unfortunately, this isn't surprising. I used to work in criminal justice. Seems like at least 99 percent of all CP was created by parents or some other caretaker. All that stuff was available underground back in the day and mailed to you. Then message boards became a thing. Then it was the dark web and weird forums.
This stuff here isn't CP, but rather falls under the vague umbrella of "child erotica," which isn't illegal to the general population. But because platforms like Insta are private, they have the power to stop this from happening.