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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

barely nsfw furry art being hidden in some software

Can you elaborate on what software and developer? That's funny af. Harassing someone for it is really stupid

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Its trickier to piece together what happened now but if you search "thorium browser furry", you'll probably find a few posts about it. There was a hell of a lot of misinfo including about it being CP for some reason when iirc it was just an anthropomorphic dog with the camera facing upwards towards them wearing panties or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So I did some digging, and it actually goes a little deeper than just a furry image. There was some anti-circumcision stuff on the developers site it seems, not in the browser itself. Apparently they weren't even linked. They were all removed with a single commit. I took a look on the commit history, and there were some pictures of circumcised penises. Including some extremely botched ones, some belonging to babies. I didn't take a look at all of them, but once I did are hardly labelable as CP. If anything, they're educational content. Wikipedia contains some similar pictures as well, you can't label Wikipedia as a CP website for those either, can you? They were running a campaign against circumcision, as one should. It's unethical genital mutilation (speaking as someone who was circumcised). Labeling this anti-circumcision stuff as CP is really stupid imo. Fuck circumcision. And imo harassing someone for this is even worse than sneaking a furry pic in a browser.

You can take a look into the commit here if you want too

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Agreed. Circumcision is fucked up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

~~Circumcision~~ Genital mutilation

Fixed that for you