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It sounds like you're dismissing the arguments purely by what you think it would mean to consider them seriously. "If these arguments are valid, then these conclusions are valid. These conclusions should not be valid. Therefore the arguments are invalid."

Why is it untenable that yes, data is data and it should move freely, and no, children should not be raped and filmed?

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Well, because of the effects stated in the post you’re responding to.

It’s a source of continuing harm to the person who has been abused, and it creates bubbles of acceptance which go on to encourage creation of more material.

We have moved past the somewhat myopic “it’s just ones and zeroes” view of this in general, as a society. Actions have consequences, even actions as simple as exchanging a specific large integer with another computer.

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