Man stopped in Dublin with child abuse images, court told
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A 21-year-old man travelling to a comic book convention in the United States was stopped by Homeland Security at Dublin Airport with child sex abuse animation images, a court has heard.

According to some random Brazilian weeaboo news site, 21-year-old Bowd was supposedly more specifically arrested for having a 2023 tactical role-playing game installed on his phone, which contains “almost [sexually] explicit” scenes with “[sexualized little girl]you know what word I’m substituting here. characters”. Now whether Bowd was actually arrested for having that specific game on his phone remains “unconfirmed”, but what I’m much more certain of is that Bowd is in all likelihood currently having a cringe-induced out-of-body experience, and his mom probably is, too.

That Brazilian weeaboo news site also claims without anything to back it up that “”““most people are outraged””“” at Bowd’s arrest, and shows five supposed comments from anonymous average netizens. Most of these comments are just thinly-veiled pedo talking points which are only really useful as jumping-off points for explaining why they’re wrong, but the first comment was, “How did they know? Did they see him playing?” — which I’m honestly kinda curious about myself. Because either the Gardaí did what I’d consider to really be a pretty severe violation of this guy’s privacy, or he just fuckin busted out the pedo anime sex game in the middle of getting inspected by Homeland Security at an international airport, As You Do™.

In any case, though:

womp womp :anime-cool:

  • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    21·
    3 days ago

    See this issue is actually really interesting when it comes to like enforcement. Because different countries have different laws about that stuff and its super wide spread in certain cough cough “gamer” communities.

    I think it could be really cool if a lot of the nations that have logical laws on this stuff got together to enforce it in a serious way, and guys like this basically got a reality check anytime they travel internationally. Maybe it could even pressure other countries (looking at you Japan) to get their act together about stuff like this.

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      22·
      3 days ago

      There was an NRK article back in 2023 whose headline was basically “many people don’t realize that sexualized drawings of children are illegal”, I can’t really share that article to this community because it’s literally two years old at this point, but yeah, there is a serious problem with lack of enforcement or even just awareness when it comes to the laws around simulated CSAM. And this is obviously by design: the Purpose Of a System Is What It Does, and capitalism has a lot more to gain from only pretending to fight pedophilia than it stands to gain from actually fighting pedophilia and winning.