I can never understand what kind of twisted person you have to be to blackmail kids like this. Utterly depressing that we have to live on the same planet as people who can justify such a thing to themselves.
If your suffering victim has already paid you and you encourage them to kill themself, you’re not dehumanizing anyone, you’re just evil. Pieces of garbage scammers, I hope they rot in prison…
Honestly this is yet another reason to distinguish between photographic images/live video of a minor, and the disgusting but necessary evil of fictional material. With scams like this and new AI generation capability, I’m scared that even kids younger than 13 who haven’t even been forced to be involved in that photographic/video crap will be blackmailed using only their face and black market image AIs that draw on dark net CSAM.
By making fictional content legal while conversely increasing penalties for adults who exploit or attack REAL children in ANY way, not just sexually (because let’s be honest, this scam, kiddy porn and a lot of physical non-sexual violence towards children by strangers is about exploiting kids for the money and nothing else) you deprive the black market of material for an AI-based extortion plan.
The only other option is to make it illegal for anyone under 18 to post content on the internet at all, which would kill Lemmy and the fediverse, big tech, VR, online gaming and modern education.
I can never understand what kind of twisted person you have to be to blackmail kids like this. Utterly depressing that we have to live on the same planet as people who can justify such a thing to themselves.
It’s easy to dehumanise the victims when the scammers are thousands of miles away and communicating only by text.
If your suffering victim has already paid you and you encourage them to kill themself, you’re not dehumanizing anyone, you’re just evil. Pieces of garbage scammers, I hope they rot in prison…
Honestly this is yet another reason to distinguish between photographic images/live video of a minor, and the disgusting but necessary evil of fictional material. With scams like this and new AI generation capability, I’m scared that even kids younger than 13 who haven’t even been forced to be involved in that photographic/video crap will be blackmailed using only their face and black market image AIs that draw on dark net CSAM.
By making fictional content legal while conversely increasing penalties for adults who exploit or attack REAL children in ANY way, not just sexually (because let’s be honest, this scam, kiddy porn and a lot of physical non-sexual violence towards children by strangers is about exploiting kids for the money and nothing else) you deprive the black market of material for an AI-based extortion plan.
The only other option is to make it illegal for anyone under 18 to post content on the internet at all, which would kill Lemmy and the fediverse, big tech, VR, online gaming and modern education.