Am I the only one to think it’s rather strange that you get redirected to csam.be when logging in to a Belgian government website using your electronic ID? Really, didn’t they bother to do a quick Google search to see what CSAM stands for?

  • @glimse
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    181 year ago

    I had honestly never heard the term until the recent issues on lemmy…always heard it called CP. I’m not even 100% sure I know what the acronym stands for either, just what it means from context.

    • @hhj
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      91 year ago

      I think this choice of acronym predates the widespread use of the CSAM acronym when referring to CP. I don’t know what it stands for either but I’ve always thought it was a play on words since in French, it sounds the same as “sesame” (sésame) which is the password to open the cave in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and is used as an expression to designate an object that grant you access to something. But I have nothing to back this up.

      • @glimse
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        21 year ago

        Counter Strike: Alpha Mango

        • snooggums
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          21 year ago

          Funny enough, in the Call of Duty games the reward coins are Call of Duty Points and are gold coins with CP on them. Makes me chuckle every time they pop up.

    • KptnAutismus
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      51 year ago

      as far as i understand it, it means child sexual abuse material. a slightly more descriptive term, but it’s still child porn.

      • @glimse
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        51 year ago

        That’s what I gathered…I had just never seen it used until those weirdos started posting it here. Thankfully just saw the acronym, not any of the pictures… Unlike reddit where I was exposed to it on two separate occasions

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        “Porn” implies consent. Since children can’t consent, there’s no such thing as child porn, hence “child sexual abuse material”.

        • snooggums
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          31 year ago

          Wait, so ‘revenge porn’ implies it is consensual?

          I do prefer the clearer CSAM that doesn’t imply porn being inherently bad, but pretty sure that porn implying consent is a newly promoted concept.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            Funny you should mention that, there’s a push to rebrand revenge porn as IBSA, “image based sexual abuse”, for exactly that reason

    • darcy
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      21 year ago

      ‘porn’ may imply that its not literal abuse. so ive heard