Okay, but the original post is how Grok is taking pictures of children and removing their clothes. That’s not cartoons and not fictional people, so I don’t know why the conversation is being shifted this far away from the actual issue at hand here.

The issue with child porn is how you specify victim. One could argue easily available pornographic images of fake children increases the market and desire for pornographic images of real children and as such can result in more victims. Especially if someone can argue that images of real victims are “fake and AI generated.”

In regards to X and Grok however, my understanding is it is taking images of real children and producing naked images of those children. So there are real victims and Tim Sweeny is saying that shouldn’t be censored.

Making porn of actual people without their consent regardless of age is not a thought crime. For children, that’s obviously fucked up. For adults it’s directly impacting their reputation. It’s not a victimless crime.

That is also drawing a certain arrangement of lines and colours, and an example of “free speech” that you don’t think should be absolute.

It’s a negligible cost. Evidenced by the fact that despite a significant number of “new users” just collecting the free games and not spending any money, EGS continues to give away free games.

Clearly padding the number of users is worth it to them more than the ‘cost’ of those users claiming a free license on their account. Otherwise they would stop doing it.

I’ve never launched a rocket and he’s launched more than Kerbal Space Agency.

I thought you were talking about Stardew and was wondering how much of the game I was still missing out on.

You’re still being an “active user” that they can use to pad their numbers and entice investors.

If you want to hurt Epic the best way to do it is to not log into their system at all.

Epic pays a flat rate to make the game free, not per download.

Yar me hearty 🏴‍☠️

Borderlands 3 launching as an Epic exclusive saved me from making the mistake of purchasing it. By the time is was available elsewhere reviews were pretty universal on it not being worthwhile.

And when you went to investors you would just tell them you’ve increased your customers by 170% and leave out the part that they aren’t buying anything. You might try to make more money from investors than you’re losing in free books.

The developers get paid a flat rate for allowing their game to be free, not per download. You are not sending the developer any money and allowing epic to inflate their user numbers (up 167% !!!) to investors.

Look at that, ICE looking for nails that aren’t sticking up:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTY0CKQCewD/

If it looks like a slop and sounds like a slop…

They’re all going to get hammered down anyway.

don’t support any dangerous idea there pls

Dangerous idea like rolling over for fascists? Surely just one more illegal invasion and they’ll stop.

I hope it’s not and we can continue the peaceful protests

Because the peaceful protests have been so effective at preventing things from getting to this point…

The last protests in the USA also made a point of minimalizing any disruption they might cause as much as possible so they could be easily and safely ignored.

Boy do Americans roll over and show their belly at the slightest bit of difficulty.

“If there’s no one telling me what to do how will I know what to do?”

population that will riot in the streets of the president so much as sneezes wrong.

Right, the citizens of France hold their elected officials accountable. Americans don’t.

Beyond labor, the No Kings protests were, numerically, some of the largest in US history. They didn’t do much…

I agee, the “don’t actually cause any trouble” protests, despite being some of the largest in US history, seem to have not slowed the decent into fascism at all. Maybe it was the whole “everyone clean up after yourselves and go back to work tomorrow like nothing happened so this can be easily ignored and forgotten” strategy.

I’m in an org that’s currently seeding strategic industries in the area, in preparation for 2028.

If there’s no resistance before 2028 then the US will have gone full Handmaid’s Tale by then.

“You don’t understand, France has a significantly smaller population! That makes it easier for them to get more people to protest for some reason! The larger population of the US means there’s nothing we can do but go about our lives like this is acceptable and hope we can vote our way out of fascism in 3 years!”

You don’t all need to be at the same place to protest. Everyone in <community a> should be protesting outside their local government offices. People across the country at <community b> should be protesting in front of their local government offices.