| NinjaBlade360 said: heres a tweet saying shes pissed off about a 54 year old man being arredted for having Child Pornography heres one http://archive.is/IEVz4 were she says she defends none cenership of it and another http://archive.is/Kt0PJ |
Do you believe that going after users of drugs will solve the drug problem?
She's making the same argument regarding child porn that is made routinely regarding the drug trade - don't punish the users, punish the suppliers (specifically, the suppliers that peddle actual child porn, not just drawings). If the goal is to end the sexual abuse of children, then punishing the users, including those who satiate their urges using drawings or computer-generated images, is actually going to make things worse - it drives the practice further underground, and makes it harder to prosecute those who are doing the harm.
Hence why she refers to "depictions of sexualised minors" as being something that should have "less strict" laws applied.
The 54 year old man who was arrested for having the child porn didn't abuse any children. But by arresting him, they make it almost guaranteed that they won't find those who are responsible for the abuse. And THAT is the true problem with the situation.
(EDIT: To put her attitude another way - she's not advocating for child pornography, she's advocating for laws to be re-done to protect children from abuse, rather than to demonise those that do nothing more than look at the stuff)
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Meanwhile, Nintendo has made clear that she wasn't fired over this at all. Their statement rings true, to me, considering her comments on twitter since then. She admits to having done what Nintendo said she did. She admits to having been asked not to comment publicly on rape culture while working there because people associate her with Nintendo and they didn't want to deal with something that had nothing to do with their business. And having now lost her job, she's accusing Nintendo of all sorts of things, etc, for the fact that they didn't want her using her notoriety as a Nintendo employee to talk about other topics.
I have no problems with defending her from people who attack her reasonable comments regarding child porn laws, and I'm very happy to denounce the behaviour of those connected to "gamergate" for their bullying and hypocrisy... but I think Nintendo made the right call, here, based on her behaviour now.
