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To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2026
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To be more precise, the reason it's getting called "sexual abuse" is that this has proven effective in affecting people's emotions and forestalling any annoyingly controversial philosophical nitpicking about whether or not creating images resembling some real person counts as abuse of that person even if they know nothing about it. Since this form of it is a new thing we don't have a better name for it yet.