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Censoring literal, open Nazis and pedos is perfectly fine by me, thank you very much. I don't think there's any "slippery slope" involved other than the risks of allowing such people free rein in open spaces.
Keyword literal.
But nowadays people like to call Nazis other people that don't agree with me and pedos weebs that like hs anime characters
So I agree with you if anything illegal is going on.
Are the Nazis advocating for violence and genocide and pedos distributing CP? sure block them and report them to the authorities.
But I don't care for fictional characters that doesn't even resemble real life humans.
Hot take I know.
To be clear, the "jailbait" forums that Reddit tolerated for years were not officially tolerating material that would be clearly illegal by US standards. If they had been, Reddit would have shut them down out of self-protection. Possessing outright child pornography is a strict-liability offense.
They were, however, posting "upskirt" photos showing children's underwear. They were posting pictures of children at the beach in swimsuits. They were, in short, posting photos of actual children, where the photos had been selected for being sexually appealing to pedophiles.
Not drawings of fictional characters; real kids, selected for hotness to pedophiles.
I think that's something about which site owners can very reasonably say, "Even if it is not a criminal offense, we think it's wrong and we don't want it on our site" without anyone needing to be concerned about censorship of ideas.
Sure, like when imgur was changing it's policy recently, people were asking for alternatives, the first search result of a suggested hosting site (don't remember which) in duck duck go was an album of a child in swimsuit doing suggestive poses, pretty disturbing, that's a clear line I agree with.