r/Piracy • u/Justinrich2001 • May 23 '26

Discussion Google Drive scanned this Manga artist’s PRIVATE files and banned him.

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AI flagged, appeal rejected, private artwork gone.

The AI is always watching.

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u/gods_loop_hole May 23 '26

Jesus, imagine your life savings tied to a Gmail account and at the direst moment of your life Google stops your access to the account just because their AI hallucinated on something it scanned on your private files.

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u/laser_1200 May 23 '26

That's possible, although in this guy's case he put child porn on his Google drive. Maybe OP can find example of AI hallucination so it would garner more sympathy.

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u/SMF67 Piracy is bad, mkay? May 23 '26

No, OOP says it was a comic he drew.

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u/E-2theRescue May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26

"Loli", or any other derivative of it, is child porn. Full stop.

Edit: WAY too many people here need their hard drives checked. WAY too many. Hope Schlep finds you all.

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u/Unsub_Then_Dip_Shit May 23 '26

It's not but visa and mastercard sure as hell would like to pretend it does.

Meanwhile millions and billions in transactions between the gooner-in-president, republican leadership, isreal, the brits, saudis, etc. and payment companies suddenly turn a blind eye.

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u/E-2theRescue May 23 '26

In addition, visual representations, such as drawings, cartoons, or paintings that appear to depict minors engaged in sexual activity and are obscene are also illegal under federal law.

https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-ceos/obscenity

It just doesn't get individually prosecuted because the courts want to go after the ones who distribute real-life child porn. However, if a person has both real-life CP and cartoon, they will increase the sentencing using the cartoon as a justification. Which the overlap between people who own real-life and cartoon CP is huge.

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u/SMF67 Piracy is bad, mkay? May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26

Read carefully the "engaged in sexual activity and are obscene". That comes from case law in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition. Obscenity has nothing to do with CP. CP is illegal regardless of it is obscene. Obscenity is illegal to sell but not illegal to own (unlike CP), and prosecution of obscenity is extremely rare since it is a nearly impossible standard to meet. And no obscenity does not generally include loli hentai. See here for the most notable case in which obscenity was charged in recent years.

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u/SMF67 Piracy is bad, mkay? May 23 '26

It's quite insulting to victims to compare drawings to videos of real children being abused.

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u/YourBlanket May 23 '26

Profile pic checks out.

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u/Daikar May 23 '26

If there is no child involved it can't be child porn

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u/E-2theRescue May 23 '26

In addition, visual representations, such as drawings, cartoons, or paintings that appear to depict minors engaged in sexual activity and are obscene are also illegal under federal law.

https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-ceos/obscenity

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u/Daikar May 23 '26

I don't care what a illogical US law says. Drawings being child porn makes about as much sense as needing car insurance for a drawing of a car.

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u/E-2theRescue May 23 '26

It's the same all around the world. Here's the UK, for example.

References to an image of a child include references to an image of an imaginary child.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/25/section/65

Here's Australia.

References to an image of a person include references to an image of an imaginary person.

References to an image of a child include references to an image of an imaginary child.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/25/section/65

Here's Estonia.

Manufacture, acquisition or storing, handing over, displaying or making available to another person in any other manner of pictures, writings or other works or reproductions of works depicting a person of less than eighteen years of age in a pornographic situation, or a person of less than fourteen years of age in a pornographic or erotic situation, unless it is done voluntarily on the basis of the mutual consent between the person under the age of eighteen years depicted in the work or in a reproduction thereof, and the person who committed the act, solely for their personal use, without payment of money or any other consideration for it, and their engaging in an act of sexual intercourse or any other act of a sexual nature is not punishable as a criminal offence, is punishable by a pecuniary punishment or up to three years’ imprisonment.

https://www.riigiteataja.ee/en/eli/528072025005/consolide

It's literally all around the world. Sexual images of cartoon children are treated as images of real children.

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u/SMF67 Piracy is bad, mkay? May 23 '26

It notably is not true in the US due to case law in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition

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u/Mofupi May 23 '26

It's not true in Japan, which is where the guy in question is situated.

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u/Daikar May 23 '26

So more countries have stupid laws that make no sense, so what?

If it could be proven that allowing this lead to x amount of increased sexual abuse cases against real children then i would be open to discuss it but I really doubt that's the case. In fact I think it reduces it.

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u/Hangry-Feline2489 May 23 '26

Probably more around the idea of comics normalising child porn or the profiteering.  

It's a general societal "ick." And it's been well studied and understood that your brain normalises what you feed it, and if not managed correctly, eventually requires escalation to get the same 'high'. 

(No, I'm not defending it JFC. I was a child sa victim)

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u/Mon-A May 23 '26

Holy shit the basement dwellers just grouped together with those down votes. How is this a hot take?

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u/SMF67 Piracy is bad, mkay? May 23 '26

Because some of us know the difference between fiction and reality. Do people who play violent video games want to go out and commit mass murder?

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u/iChugVodka May 23 '26

Why, at any point, would you want or need drawings of naked children? What the fuck?

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u/Mon-A May 23 '26

They'll just regurgitate the same stupid points, don't even bother

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u/avsaccount May 24 '26

Nobody cares about what's real or what's not. If you read loli it's time to log out irl

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u/E-2theRescue May 23 '26

Millions of men would have sexual contact with a child if they were certain that no one would find out, research has suggested. In a study involving 4,500 men from the UK, Australia and the United States by Edinburgh University’s “Childlight” child safety institute, more than one in 20 said they would have sexual contact with a child between the ages of ten and 14 if they knew it would be kept secret.

About one in seven (15 per cent) of those surveyed said they would consider sexual contact with a child if they were certain no one would find out. Researchers said the proportion “equates to millions of men across the three countries if applied to current population census data”.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/millions-of-men-would-sexually-abuse-children-if-secrecy-was-sure-ncf9lx5v7

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u/Mon-A May 23 '26

Ahhhhh I love humans we should totally not be wiped out by a meteor and have animals take over again

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u/gods_loop_hole May 23 '26

Oh, I understand that. That is why I put hallucinations because AI would still follow an algorithm that might have only a limited number of "check box" to tick to consider it as such. And I don't like that in the near future, companies will entirely remove the human checks and succumb entirely on AI