I don’t know of a single person who would hear “child porn” and think it’s somehow harmless.
If you’re used to hearing “child porn” and someone says “child sexual abuse material” you wouldn’t think it’s CP, since then they’d just say CP. It must be some kind of sexual abuse that is not as bad as CP, since they would call it that otherwise.
It’s even worse since “Child sexual abuse material” is so fucking long noone bothers to write it all, they just say CSAM, which has no meaning. If you don’t know what CSAM means, you won’t be shocked at all about the news. Meanwhile CP is most oftenly written as “child porn”, mostly using CP when “child porn” was already said. CP is a non-confusing name that everyone is familiar with, that is much more descriptive, and should generate hatred in the mind of any healthy person.
The only reason CSAM is used is because of American puritanism doesn’t let you say “porn”, which permeates to every enterprise setting. So you can’t call your software “child porn detection software” (think of the children!) you have to call it “CSAM detection software”. Pair that with the obnoxious need of some people to come up with new names for everything and call you *-ist for using the “old” name. And suddenly headlines are filled with random 4 letter acronyms without meaning instead of using the appropriate words.
I don’t know of a single person who would hear “child porn” and think it’s somehow harmless.
If you’re used to hearing “child porn” and someone says “child sexual abuse material” you wouldn’t think it’s CP, since then they’d just say CP. It must be some kind of sexual abuse that is not as bad as CP, since they would call it that otherwise.
It’s even worse since “Child sexual abuse material” is so fucking long noone bothers to write it all, they just say CSAM, which has no meaning. If you don’t know what CSAM means, you won’t be shocked at all about the news. Meanwhile CP is most oftenly written as “child porn”, mostly using CP when “child porn” was already said. CP is a non-confusing name that everyone is familiar with, that is much more descriptive, and should generate hatred in the mind of any healthy person.
The only reason CSAM is used is because of American puritanism doesn’t let you say “porn”, which permeates to every enterprise setting. So you can’t call your software “child porn detection software” (think of the children!) you have to call it “CSAM detection software”. Pair that with the obnoxious need of some people to come up with new names for everything and call you *-ist for using the “old” name. And suddenly headlines are filled with random 4 letter acronyms without meaning instead of using the appropriate words.