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since right‐wingers has already been blaming the LGBT+ community for pedophilia, they didn’t want any more risk of the media start accusing the blahaj instance of endorsing pedophilia, so they had to act

Innocent trans person: gets wrongly accused of pedophilia by disingenuous lying scumbag fascists as part of some stupid political culture war.

Same trans person: wrongly accuses someone else of pedophilia to appease disingenuous lying scumbag fascists as part of some stupid political culture war.

Trans rights are human rights. At the same time I think that every adult has the fundamental right to sexual self-expression, alone or among consenting adult partners. The definition and very nature of "kink" means that a person finds something erotic that other people find mundane, strange or even gross (like feet, bondage, roleplay, nylon, furry, piss play, adult diapers, etc). "Sex-positivity" means being tolerant with the fact that different people get turned on by different things, and that basically anything goes between consenting adults who are following whatever laws that happen to apply to them. Nobody has to like kink, but people ought to accept that kink is a valid form of consensual adult sexuality.

At this point, the facts seem to suggest the the lemmynsfw community in question was made up of consenting adults. And so, taking the misdirected heat off of your community by wrongly directing it at someone else's community is indefensible to me. Nobody is being protected when false accusations fly freely and people start shoving others under the bus for political convenience.

I think the blahajzone made the wrong call here, and lemmynsfw deserve credit for sticking up for sex-positivity amongst consenting adults, especially under pressure.

I feel they're just feeding into the bs outrage over this topic that people clearly want to misunderstand purposely. Kbin.social did the same thing, albeit potentially temporarily but with how much they work on the platform I feel they don't even come around to reversing it.

That's kind of a ridiculous take i think. It's more likely that one single person has too much power and uses it to enforce their morality on others. Tale as old as time.

Yeah no. "Needs to be purged" is not the language you'd use if you want to head off some sort of accusation. That's just straight up personal hatred.

It's already being done as much as possible. Oli London did accuse a trans women for being a pedophile for liking "lolita anime", which turned out to be just Gundam Seed or something along that line.

Other issues:

• It's illegal in a lot of countries, and the places where it's legal it's still being called "virtual CP". On some level, I can understand this sentiment, it can risk the legality of your instance too, but they're still essentially just drawings for the most part, unless CSEM was used for reference, features a drawing of a real child, can't be distinguished from photography easily, etc.
• Pedojacketing happens with a lot of kinks, even in supposedly "kink-positive" circles. I got called a pedo for liking navels, hairless genitalia, etc., so people will try to connect kinks to pedophilia, especially those pesky puriteens, who also think the age of consent should be 25.

I personally don't like such material (although I don't strongly age-check every character I see online), but I'm also against any legislation targeting such things, especially within the current anti-LGBT climate. This would easily lead to LGBT relationships also being labeled as "virtual CSEM", while obviously giving the straight stuff the green light.

Well, damn. I never thought of that. This is the most reasonable explanation I’ve seen.

That was part of what I felt they’re doing, but to me the community on lemmynsfw also bothered me and I blocked it. There’s definitely something wrong and nefarious about a community who resides in legal territory but relies on an implication. It’s the same as a community of Nazis existing but using dog whistle wording to avoid anyone noticing. I’m not going to say it’s illegal, but I’m also not in support of it and I understand Blahaj doing what they did.