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deleted that tweet that was getting ratio'd, not cause I take it back, but because it was generating a disproportionate amount of yelling at me. I'm planning on writing a much more in-depth and less ratio-able blog post about my reasoning on the topic! But to clarify:

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I thought it was a great tweet/great point, fwiw, and screw people who willfully misinterpret it. The analogy to lab-grown meats is a good one!

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It's not, really, because the meat industry is created by a profit motive. I dont think the child porn industry is. But still she should be allowed to talk about it. We need a lot of subtle & collaborative brainstorming to tackle the issue

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I do think the child porn industry is! A lot of my ideas around this come from some stuff I read a long time ago about behind the scenes of taking down CP rings, where it seemed real apparent to me that there was a super big profit motive behind most of the porn being produced.

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Ok interesting! I didnt know. I had thought most CP was produced by people who abuse regardless. 1 other incongruency then?.. is that meat is already consumed by 99% of people, so there's little danger that increased fake meat production will normalize & increase desire for meat

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you're making a reasonable point. legalization of drugs takes money away from violent cartels, legalization of sexwork takes money away from violent pimps / mafias. synthetic pornography would disincentive the production of real life pornography (you are describing JP + hentai).

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I’ve read that the industry has profits approaching $20 billion annually on the high end. That was from an article ten years ago.

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So you are basing your logic on something outdated you haven't kept track of in years, not knowing or even attempting to research newer articles on this issue throwing your position clear out the window?

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I suspect that there are real world examples here in similar value metrics; endangered species hunting, ivory trade, global market contraband. But your argument was used, I know of, in the ivory trade after a seizure of ivory. And the results were opposite your theory:

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Seems like everyone here doesn't someone's else opinion. "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all" Noam Chomsky.

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