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Of course there are already censors, and I'd say that's a problem. Sharing CSAM or a copyright protected media file isn't speech though, and isn't protected by free speech laws.



Creating CSAM and posting it online is certainly speech, though, just as much as posting a legal form of original artwork is. But I'm 100% fine with the person responsible for that CSAM being censored and prosecuted, by the government, and that's exactly what will happen.


If you extend speech protections to cover creating and distributing CSAM you open the flood gates to a mountain of other actions that are crimes today.

What is the difference in creating CSAM and creating heroine that would make the former free speech and the later a crime?




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