At this point, “stealing” from any sufficiently large corporation is just consumer recuperation of stolen wages and tax revenues, especially if that company finances lobbying.
There is a meaningful difference between these stages of life, and conflating the two to call someone a child molester weakens credibility and minimizes actual child molestation. I don’t fully understand this extreme desire to redefine “child” as “anyone under 18” but it doesn’t really seem like the goal is protecting children.
I remember being a teenager, and I remember being a child, and the two were quite a bit different when it came to sexuality. If you want to equate the sexual abuse of an actual child with consensual teenage sex, ask yourself: which of these would you choose if you had to pick one?
EDIT: I knew this was a sensitive topic for some, but I really didn’t expect the number of nonsensical knee jerk reactions. Amid any of those outraged, can you explain to me how this is story describes “child molestation” and not simply statutory rape? Either way, if your outrage brings you comfort then have at it. I can certainly understand. While you’re certainly entitled to it, I don’t have to share it.
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I would like to dispute the primary supposition here that pornography is harmful. The use of pornography is nearly universal, and most of the harms that it supposedly causes are symptoms of other issues, or are invented to impose control of sexuality. The ability to reach out with the power of the law to impose religious edicts or project sexual hangups is one of the most esoteric, yet effective, forms of political control available other than violence. If you can control the way that people express their sexuality, you can probably also control their views through the monetization and restriction of sex.
Sexuality and privacy are human rights, and the creation of and access to pornography is protected by the first and fourth amendments under which so-called “age verification” is an unnecessary and excessive burden. If the idea is to prevent access to children, ask yourself why now all adults must now have their access prevented or interrupted.
Furthermore, it is not the state’s role to control childhood sexual development, and the idea that porn is harmful to minors is debatable at best and dubious at worst. Access to objectionable material is solely at the discretion of parents. The fact that they cannot effectively manage this is a symptom of another problem.
When Meta shows teenage girls makeup ads after they delete their selfies, or streaming apps are flooded with violent movies that are easily accessible to minors, this is acceptable. But when I want to watch porn it’s now my job to “protect minors” by compromising my privacy and security?
The real “danger” here is the availability of ideas that do not align with state power.
According to former militia commander Rafeh—who is still living, in hiding, in Afghanistan—the circumstances that shaped Lakanwal were common among resettled militia veterans. “Many former soldiers and militiamen lived for the war and experienced trauma. It’s not compatible with their new lives in Europe or in Northern America. Also, their former NATO allies are abandoning them more and more. Many still don’t have documents while their family members are forced to hide themselves in Afghanistan”, Rafeh said. “If they are also traumatized drug addicts like Lakanwal, they are literal time bombs created through American warfare itself.”
Oh man, who sells these toys so I can make sure to avoid them? Like, which website specifically There are so many, oh man! It’s so hard to know which specific one to avoid! And also, how do I make sure they can’t be modified to accept a fleshlight? You know, just to make extra sure I don’t get a slutty slop hole of a filth spewing teddy bear that will take on all-comers. No one wants that! That would be disgusting.
The Trump regime killed this woman by unnecessarily putting a military force in an exposed position to perform tasks for which they are ill-suited, just like the US did in Afghanistan. Now, they will callously wield her memory as a political tool to channel racism against Afghan refuges that had the audacity to assist in the US invasion of Afghanistan.
The message is clear: NEVER help the United States government, they will fuck you over just to satisfy the whims of rich narcissists.