mox@lemmy.sdf.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoPlayboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journalsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squarejust another dev@lemmy.my-box.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoSaying the crop is a porn photo is like saying homeopathy has an active ingredient because “the water remembers”.
minus-squareJojo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-26 months agoExcept that people do, in fact, remember. Sure, if society gets destroyed and future archeologists find the cropped photo and that’s all that remains of it, it’s not a porn photo any more. But for now, people know where it came from. That matters. Edit: typos, clarity
minus-squarejust another dev@lemmy.my-box.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months ago… By that logic, you are now touching a porn device, since these pixels below are clearly pornography.
Saying the crop is a porn photo is like saying homeopathy has an active ingredient because “the water remembers”.
Except that people do, in fact, remember. Sure, if society gets destroyed and future archeologists find the cropped photo and that’s all that remains of it, it’s not a porn photo any more. But for now, people know where it came from. That matters.
Edit: typos, clarity
… By that logic, you are now touching a porn device, since these pixels below are clearly pornography.