• @givesomefucks
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    881 year ago

    This is why charging a juvenile for taking a nude of themselves with creating CSAM is the dumbest shit ever…

    It gives these kids an actual valid reason to not tell anyone. And the blackmailers can ask for worse than just money. It could lead to actual physical abuse in some cases.

    Without that law, anyone being blackmailed could just turn to the authorities without a care in the world.

    • @SheeEttin
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      161 year ago

      Well, except for the care about the shame of having done it.

      • @givesomefucks
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        241 year ago

        As a former teen boy, I would give zero fucks if the cops saw a pic of my dick so that some catfish who tried to blackmail me would go to prison.

        But it wouldn’t need every victim to go forward, just a few and this wouldn’t even be a thing because the risk/reward is complete dog shit for the scammers.

        Right now they know that their victim going to the cops is unlikely because they’d have to confess to a serious crime. So the scammers worst case scenario is they just don’t get money.

        Read the article, the director of the freaking FBI is on to this and cooperates with foreign governments to catch the scammers. It wouldn’t take many coming forward before the old inheritance scams started looking better for the scammers.

        All they need is victims to come forward, and this would accomplish it

    • @ikidd
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      121 year ago

      For real. I’d be more worried about what the police would do to my kid than anything they might be able to do to catch the blackmailer. Reporting it is a zero-sum game. And the district attorneys are responsible for this being the case, 100%.