A new cleanup update has been posted covering the recent Vault rework, rank changes, policy cleanup, and theme polish.
The goal is to make LC cleaner, easier to understand, and safer for the site going forward.
- Jack Of Blades
Not sure what for unless real C P was found or something. All the police can do is steal your (hopefully disposable and remotely backed up and encrypted) laptop/PC and harass you otherwise. Had this happened in the US he could sue the gov't and win a chunk of that "anti-gov't-weaponization" fund if no laws were actually broken.
I thought that fictional stuff was legal in Germany. But if he had real stuff on his pc he would probably be in prison right now, so who knows. Sucks that he can't work on his games anymore. Or at least he can't create games with loli characters.
Another recognizable dev posted on his Discord with the following message:
Moon is based in Germany (I thought he was Russian) and we know that Killer7 had their computers and drives seized, and the German government won't return them but have not arrested him for a crime either. They went after K7 for a nude thumbnail for a base character in Daz (the ones that have no genitalia by default) but have not arrested K7, but it seems like Moon may not have been as lucky. Non-realistic images and videos are supposed to be legal in Germany, but that does not seem to stop the police and prosecutors from harassing Daz creators.
I thought that fictional stuff was legal in Germany. But if he had real stuff on his pc he would probably be in prison right now, so who knows. Sucks that he can't work on his games anymore. Or at least he can't create games with loli characters.
Not sure about Germany but not every country goes that hard over just C P possession (production is another thing). The US is probably the worst on the planet for that as many are just fines and maybe probation and community service, essentially the US equivalent of a misdemeanor. Hell even in China if caught you just get summoned to the local police station and usually they will just tell you to stop downloading or watching porn (they don't distinguish which fetish or type of porn as it's all illegal) and send you on your way with a warning, though they have 0 tolerance for repeat offenders.
Edit: Just checked, in Germany it's also just a misdemeanor = 3 months jail or at worst 5 years maximum (probably reserved for repeat offenders or the absolute worst who had half the Darknet on their PC's, or were selling it so gets a "commercial purposes" consideration, plus ages are also probably a big consideration with actors being 5 or 15 making a big difference). And all that is referring to the real thing, cartoons are 100% legal, at least in theory, as there's no specific law against it.
Yup, aside from tech upgrades sounds like they haven't actually changed much from when Hitler was in power. Actually kinda worse, because now you don't even need to be a Jew.