I was under the impression that Mr. Stillwaterising was one of those people who, shall we say, really really enjoys online porn (if not porn in general) and is willing to make whatever efforts or arguments are necessary to protect it, even if it means getting heavily involved with Wikipedia. I've looked at his contribution history and I suppose it could be said that he actually does want to keep a lid on child porn (at least the more blatant stuff), if only as a way to ensure the continued availability (if not growth) of adult porn. However, since he and the other WP'ers have largely failed in keeping said lid on, he's now trying to reconcile his past porn advocacy with recent arguments for morally responsible behavior WRT child-abuse imagery.
Am I at least in the ballpark here? I would agree that in his case, what might have been a "moral compass" does seem to have been replaced with a set of US legal citations, but then again, that's probably better than nothing.
Either way, the solution to this (if there is one) is probably not to find more subjects to write about that can potentially be illustrated with "erotic" images of underaged individuals, even if those articles are ostensibly about the abusive nature of such things...?
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