Facebook Labeling 2D Lolita Content “Child Sex Abuse Material”

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Loli is a word often used by anime fans. It refers to small (underage) girls having a child like appearance, and more often than that Loli’s are of adult age (thousands of years old) despite having a childlike looks. Recently, Facebook has implemented a new update where it warns users when they try to search ‘loli’ on its platform.

When you first search ‘loli’, Facebook gives you a warning that the following term is associated with child sexual abuse, and seeing child sexual abuse images can lead to imprisonment and other severe consequences.

Edit: Changed source to something other than Sankaku Complex.

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Just to confirm, it gives a “warning” but does not actually stop the search, correct?

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Probably stops the search.

I don’t use Facebook though, so I can’t confirm.

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Thanks.

What about gothic lolita? Does that being up the warning?

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I see. I figured Facebook wouldn’t take the Scunthorpe problem into effect.

Guess I was wrong.

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Well, if it doesn’t actually stop the search, I’d take the warning as a badge of honor. Much like YouTube putting up “warnings” whenever people state that the CCP virus came from the Wuhan lab.

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Since someone decided to hide my previous message without so much as stating why, who do I appeal this to? Still terminus or someone else?

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I get what you’re saying but comparing an unfounded warning regarding specific search terms with something that sort of makes sense to warn people about, with real-world consequences and implications is not very helpful.

Warning people about search queries containing “loli” and including a blurb about the harms of CSEM is stupid because loli and works of fiction, by definition, are not CSEM.
CSEM is limited to any materials produced with the involvement of actual, real children.

But warning users who look up certain things or include “fact check” sections on posts or articles talking about it is hardly an issue, so long as the sources linked are valid and credible and the subject matter warrants it.

But please keep it on-topic. Your post was disagreeable, but your underlying point I felt was on-topic.

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Pornhub also has that message. I tried it today and it says exactly the same thing as the Facebook one. It sucks they conflate fiction with CSAM.

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while it does suck that they conflate the two. Pornhub is a Canadian company (based in Montreal). And that fictional material is illegal in Canada.

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I didn’t know that. Thanks for letting me know! That explains it.

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According to Wikipedia, lolicon is illegal in France, unless it has “artistic value” (that sounds familiar).

As for Czechia (I assume you meant the Czech Republic, right?), the law doesn’t say anything about fiction, it only mentions real CSAM (which is illegal). Or, at the very least, Wikipedia couldn’t find any information on it.

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I’m sure you all know but Twitter did this too. I’ll go right now and check.

Okay, you can search for racist terms (including that one term that is popularly used, in pop culture) but you can’t search for loli, and it tells me it’s an invalid search.

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