Esther M. Aronowitz is back. THIS IS NOT A DRILL
Acid's updates on the AI Porn Bans, loli, and the pedonigger attack
First, the AI Porn Bans and loli
Beginning on January 1st, several countries and US States had laws go into effect concerning AI generated porn. Think like the law currently being debated in Texas, except there's already 12 States that passed it, and many, many countries. This snuck up on us, as it wasn't widely reported in any free-speech channels and we never saw much protest or other dust kicked up that would draw attention to it. Most of these laws are surface aimed at Deepfake images used for harassment purposes, but several, like the one in Texas, also pose a serious threat to the existence of *any and all* fictional content that so much as resembles a minor. The retardation that we saw years ago in Australia went International, and nobody was the wiser until it was already in effect all over. That is why we temporarily lost the .se domain. The host contacted us and and notified us that to comply with Norway's version of the law they couldn't service us any longer. After four very comfy years. To their credit, they were nice about it and communicated with us. It was then when we went in search of replacements that we discovered how widespread the new 2025 laws really are, and it shocked us.
tl;dr a bunch of feel-good bans on AI art got passed around the world 2 months ago, and several are also written to ban loli art in places where it was previously legal.
>Resolution: We do have a new server for .se coming online. It just took time and a lot of work to find one. We were well underway setting this up when a new problem arose.
The Pedonigger Attack
The site is currently in the process of being Esthered. For those who don't remember that event, some unknown person using the handle "Esther M. Aronowitz" spent time hunting down 8chan splinter sites in 2020, badgering registrars and hosting companies with alarmist reports to get them to drop service. It happened to us once, and to sites on the webring too. Only this time the attacker has taken a more active role. The reason why PNG files and GIFs are disabled at the moment is because he spent time creating animated images that contained CP buried several seconds deep in the animation frames, and then seeded them in dead threads and slow boards all around the site. He then waited several hours before linking those files in Esther-type reports to the hosts and registrars. We've removed them immediately each time but it still poses a risk. Its an ongoing battle and we're looking into a better technical solution.
IN THE MEANTIME, DON'T HESITATE TO GLOBALLY REPORT ANY UNUSUAL FILES.
You guys are very good about reporting that shit when you stumble across it, and always have been. But this faggot is hiding the shit so that it won't be noticed even on a cursory check by a user or even a mod. Anyone whos bored and wants to help out can poke around old threads across the site and just see if you bump into one. Report it and we'll take care of it immediately. If you have the free time, help us take a closer look. We're staying in contact with the hosts and registrars and have explained the situation in detail, but the more we can do to clean the shit up faster, the better off we'll be until a better solution is ready. Stephen Lynx is assisting us too, so it shouldn't take too long to get implemented.
We didn't wanna say anything until we had it figured out and a roadmap we could present. The problem is these laws are super new, mostly foreign languages, untested in courts and enforcement, and theres no place that even has a handy list compiled of what is banned where yet. Its a clusterfuck. Kentucky, California, Oklahoma, Oregon, Illinois, Iowa, Nevada, and the rest were up northeast. Typical mix of libshit and boomercon states. Texas is in the news because theirs is the most explicit about going after all fictional works, but nearly all of them have the potential to. Most of the international ones are closer to Texas, like what happened in Norway.
Edited last time by Mark on 03/20/2025 (Thu) 01:15:52.