> but in the world we live in, if you are under the age of 18, posting nudes of yourself is a serious crime: child pornography. One of the most ruthlessly prosecuted and punished crimes you can commit. Every single person that has ever downloaded one of your nudes is at risk >
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> of having their lives obliterated. And you yourself could realistically be charged with separate crimes for every photo you’ve ever posted/sent to somebody. I’m talking centuries worth of prison time depending on just how many nudes you posted. It doesn’t matter what your age >
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> of consent in where you are, what matters is that under international law, meaning every country in the developed world, sexual images depicting minors under the age of 18 are child pornography. I want you to take a moment to think about how this situation on twitter makes >
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> you feel. All the anxiety, anger, distress you feel. Imagine that but 1000 worse. Every time you see me talking about you, imagine it’s your parole officer calling you at 6am demanding a report on what you’ve been doing. Every time one of my followers tweets at you, imagine >
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> it’s police breaking your door down and tearing your home apart to make sure you don’t have internet accessible devices or porn in your possession. Every time you see somebody tweeting about you to your followers, imagine it’s people who got your address off the sex offender>
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> registry throwing rocks through your windows and slashing your car tires, spray painting “PEDOPHILE” on your door. Every time you worry about if the police are coming for you or not, imagine it’s you waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat and screaming because >
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> in a PTSD fueled dream, you relieved on of the numerous times you were sexually assaulted by somebody who thought they would punish you for being a sex offender And every time you say that you just want to move on, imagine saying that but meaning you want the life you had >
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> back. The life where you could go where you want do what you want and be with friends and family that loved you without the justice system constantly dictating your every move and threatening you with prison time if you ever mess up. THAT is the life of somebody who gets >
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> wrapped up in the stuff you were doing. THAT is the life that might still await you and probably guaranteed would if you continued to post nudes. As soon as you turn 18, you can post as many nudes doing as many kinky things as you want. But until then you put yourself and >
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> everybody who comes across your profile at risk if you continue to post. Wait until you’re 18.
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And one final thing
@HyperStarFur, assuming you read this far: just post a public apology acknowledging what you did was wrong and that you know why now. Do that, and everybody will start to leave you alone, at least as far as I can control. We aren’t bad people, we just are >Show this thread -
> trying to protect ourselves and each other. We’ve seen what this can do to people’s lives. I have nothing against you personally. I just refuse to see somebody else go through what my friend currently lives every single day if I can help it.
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