The United Kingdom has long been trying to introduce age verification laws for pornography sites. A system using passports, credit cards, and other means was supposed to...
Pons_Aelius
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81Y

That is where I got the (fucked up) idea from.

IIRC: In USA. Teen sent nude pic to his girlfriend, both 16. He was charged with distributing child porn and put on a sex offender register for life.

DarkThoughts
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I wonder how they’d handle some families photo albums.

a child bathing naked isnt neccessarily csam, really depends on the nature of the picture

DarkThoughts
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21Y

Neither is a teen freely sending a nude selfie of themselves to their teen SO.
Many family photo albums feature naked kids in various stupid situations that were just thought to be cute and funny at the time, which would nowadays melt peoples brains if they’d hear about it, and certainly would fall under the same laws that would punish the teen in the other example.

the big difference here is that the child bathing doesnt have any sexual intent, while the teen selfie does

DarkThoughts
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I can have some sexual intend on photos of naked children bathing too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That’s not really how those laws work though.

Echo Dot
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USA is determined to out stupid every other country on earth isn’t it.

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