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Not particularly proud of all this, but as an autistic millenial kid who had access to the internet in the late '90s early 2000s I've got a relevant story.

If you wanted to look at boobs on the internet in the era of waiting a minute for images to load, Playboy was an easy way to avoid some of the more hardcore and kink porn on the internet. You could be pretty sure that regardless of what site you were on, Playboy content would actually contain boobs, and you wouldn't waste 2 minutes slowly loading a picure of a dude in a gimp mask getting pegged through the bars of a pet cage (not trying to yuck anyone's yum, but when you're a dumb teen with absent parents looking for boobs, it wasn't what I was after). Eventually Playboy content started to be considered "too vanilla" by the majority of porn users at the time, but I still liked vanilla and kinda let my Autism go crazy on occasion over the years to download and organize offline copies of a bunch of photosets.

Time passes, I get a bit older and become a young adult, the internet gets faster, at some point I revisit the porn archival hyperfixation, and foolishly write a script to scrape and download photosets straight from Playboy's paid member-only site.

Obviously one of their web admins notices that my account is a huge chunk of their monthly traffic, and I get an email from their customer service basically saying their admins noticed unusual activity on my account, and to explain myself or face a ban. I made up some excuse that worked on the customer service agent and they let me off with a warning.

But the next day I got an email from the admin that said he knew what I had done, and that the answer I gave the customer service rep was a lie, and if he ever caught me again he'd send the police after me for possession of CSAM. I replied that the only images I had were from their site, how is that CSAM, and if there is CSAM they would be in more trouble for distributing/selling access to it. He wrote back and said yeah, we're a company, the rules don't apply the same as individuals, and that if I kept arguing with him he'd ban me anyway.

So, yeah, I deleted everything I had downloaded and decided that hyperfixation wasn't worth it.

Go after them for child porn. Easy win law enforcement

Allred in her own statement noted that they are asking for the attorneys general to investigate the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation’s stewardship and actions. She observed that the documentation in question includes names of women the magazine publisher slept with as well as notes describing the sex acts they performed. “Crystal is especially concerned that these scrapbooks could contain images of minor girls,” Allred said. “Moreover, Crystal is also concerned that some of the images in the scrapbooks may have been taken without the informed consent of the adult women depicted, such as while they were intoxicated.”

Man, if you can't trust a man who made a fortune selling nude photographs of women to not be a pedophile who can you trust?

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