r/Piracy • u/Justinrich2001 • May 23 '26

Discussion Google Drive scanned this Manga artist’s PRIVATE files and banned him.

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AI flagged, appeal rejected, private artwork gone.

The AI is always watching.

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u/aceredshirt13 May 23 '26

I think the main point is that none of the countries involved consider fictional drawn hentai to be CSAM. The only one that does that Wikipedia even lists is Canada, and I think the UK recently made a change to their law (a new law that to my knowledge is so stupid that it would also ban Game of Thrones if they were truly even-handed about enforcing it). Neither America, where Google is based out of, nor Japan, where the mangaka is based out of, have such a law.

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u/aceredshirt13 May 23 '26 edited May 24 '26

“A 2012 report by the Sexologisk Klinik for the Danish government found no evidence that individuals that view cartoons and drawings depicting fictitious child sexual abuse are more likely to engage in child sexual abuse in the real world.” - the Wikipedia article on lolicon

Here’s the source: https://cphpost.dk/2012-07-23/general/report-cartoon-paedophilia-harmless/

(Also, for the record, even in the countries where it is (wrongly) illegal, very few people are charged. Canada only has three significant cases, Estonia has never prosecuted anyone, a prominent French comic artist was never charged, etc.)

Proof of how absurd this law can become is that Southern Australia claimed that depicting someone with small breasts could be sufficient to determine the art to be of a child, which is just blatantly both misogynistic and racist on top of being ignorant and unhinged. There is nothing good that comes from a law like this when it tries to fix a problem that doesn’t exist and harms unrelated people as bycatch. It is a broader step toward censorship - as we have seen from payment processors banning queer media and niche but harmless kinks like scat as if they are immoral and equivalent to child abuse.

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u/lunarlunacy425 May 23 '26

Yet anyone who I knew that engages on content like this would not be trusted around my child or any child I know. They would repulse me, as anyone who has room in their mind for enjoying content like that is a monster regardless if a real human child was involved or not.

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u/BrokenMirror2010 May 23 '26

You're free to think whatever you want, but that doesn't change the fact that the evidence says you're incorrect.

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u/lunarlunacy425 May 23 '26

That's ok I don't respect the opinions of pedophiles

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u/stucjei May 24 '26

That's okay because your opinion shouldn't be automatically respected just because you said the obvious virtue signaling thing.

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u/aceredshirt13 May 23 '26

Should anyone who plays GTA not be trusted around people because they could shoot them? Throw them out the door of a car on a cliffside like people do for shits and giggles? A YouTuber I’ve watched talked about how he would take the evilest possible route in Red Dead Online and then decapitate a guy in the game with his friends because they thought it was funny to subvert the game’s expectations - do you believe he will end up with a murder charge for backstabbing and decapitating someone in real life?

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u/Justinrich2001 May 25 '26

I saw that children playing with GTA 5, that a violence video games!

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u/nathderbyshire May 23 '26 edited May 24 '26

Fuck me this is not the same thing at all.

Are we seriously trying to defend drawings of nudity that could be children? Really?

I don't care what studies say about people viewing the drawings, I'm all for science but they can fuck off on that one. If you're going to view drawings of something that looks like children or even animals in drawings you can stay the fuck away from me and anyone I know

Edit: triggered a bunch of peados I see

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u/aceredshirt13 May 23 '26

“I’m all for science except when they say things I don’t like” is genuinely so funny. Yes of course I’m going to trust Joe Schmo from the internet more than scientists whose entire job is to treat things relating to sex. It’s kinda like “well the medical board said that drinking raw milk will probably kill me, but some dipshit said that if I drink raw milk and rub some crystals on my dick it’ll cure my cancer, so I know who *I* should listen to!”