How many of you?

[PorcelainLark]

Might be better working with people that are already out, like Mythebe and Katie Cruz.

This is great names to try. I am going to reach out to the artist, maybe he would help me with my book.

For voices, there are a few people.
https://www.youtube.com/@all1ng487 who was also on ATF but hasn't been online for a few years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzBX5Qt5QPg Omnizoa who argued against shoe0nhead's videos about MAPs (anti-contact, I think)
https://www.youtube.com/@YuenHsiaoTieng/videos The Savanah Ape, who seems to have gone offline (pro-contact, I think)
https://www.youtube.com/@toddnickerson9991 Todd Nickerson (closely related to Virped and anti contact)
Apparently JohnMolotov, from the MAPrightsforum and ATF is out.
Also there's the infamous Amos Yee.

Then there are non-MAPs that have been sympathetic to MAPs in the past.
The scientist James Cantor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB6zwvBtDK8
MrGirl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iERNdjDlqcE Apparently he's working on a large video essay about how society thinks about pedophilia, interviewing a bunch of people, but he's been banned from Youtube. To be clear, I'm pretty sure he isn't a MAP.

Bear in mind, some of these people definitely won't work together. For example Nickerson isn't going to have anything to do with Amos Yee; MrGirl had a hostile interview with James Cantor which probably means Cantor will likely have nothing to do with him. Pick who you try to recruit carefully.

Proton mail.

I will have to find time and resources to sign up for that. I struggle so much financially.

Protonmail is free. Activism can be a real time sink though. Maybe organizing something like Patreon, but that allows funding for MAP activists would give us the "infrastructure" to get more stuff done (if that doesn't already exist).

anonymity at risk.

I guess only brave souls know there is nothing fundamentally illegal about talking business and organizing. This platform is find its own way, but I think it slow. Responds could take days. I would love to see a monthly, weekly, few times a year.

I'm not worried about law enforcement as much as harassment/vigilantes/stalkers. It feels like we are better off choosing public appearances carefully and organizing without outside pressure when possible.

But thanks for the insight, I will look into those people.

Not trouble, good luck!

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Also there's the infamous Amos Yee.

Back in jail.


You also missed Scotusbaby:
https://www.youtube.com/@mrminer071166
He's a member here (though spends most of his time at BC).

[PorcelainLark]

Also there's the infamous Amos Yee.

Back in jail.

Hmm, why am I not surprised?

You also missed Scotusbaby:
https://www.youtube.com/@mrminer071166
He's a member here (though spends most of his time at BC).

Cool, didn't know about him.

[TMKnight]

Thank you all, it is cool to see there are people out. I just hope they are willing to help each other out. Build each other up (MAPs that is).

Any of you have any ideas who might be willing to sponsor to fund a MAPs startup concept?

[KatieCruz]

Please consider using a value-neutral term like PIM instead of CSAM.

MAP
AMSC
PIM

The three terms for the 2020s.

I know what MAP is, but I'm unfamiliar with the other acronyms.

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Please consider using a value-neutral term like PIM instead of CSAM.

MAP
AMSC
PIM

The three terms for the 2020s.

I know what MAP is, but I'm unfamiliar with the other acronyms.

https://www.map-union.org/encyclopedia/glossary

AMSC - "adult-minor sexual contact" is intended to be a value neutral term used instead of "child sex abuse". The problem with "child sex abuse" is that it becomes tautological. Rather than researchers looking at contact between adults and minors impartially, they assume abuse from the beginning and then work backwards to find what was abusive. It may be true that most AMSC is abusive- an anti-c MAP may hold that opinion- but even so there is no reason to use language that universally assumes abuse.

PIM - "prohibited images of minors" similarly intends to refer to images based on their legal standing, rather than moral standing. Illegal images, depending on jurisdiction, can include lolisho, fiction, AI generated and non-coerced self generated images. The term "CSAM", again, assumes that the images depict actual abuse, when not all illegal content is actually abusive. Meanwhile, the term "CP", as some critics point out can result in a overly positive interpretation of content that is blatantly abusive and harmful. "PIM" avoids both of these extremes by merely describing that the images depict minors and are illegal. Both abusive and non-abusive content is included in the term.

[Strato]

Re Savile ...

In 2009 the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) claimed that “an absence of statements from the victims led to there being insufficient to charge the suspect with any criminal offence. On October 1st 2009, the suspect was interviewed. He denied all the allegations and suggested that such complaints were motivated by money and the type a TV and radio celebrity attracted.” The basis of the final decision by CPS was confirmed in a written response on 26 October 2009 as “… on applying the evidential test in the absence of statements from victims, there is clearly insufficient evidence to charge the suspect with any criminal offence.”

I am puzzled by the stark contrast between the sympathetic coverage the UK celebrity Huw Edwards gets on this board and the vitriol heaped on the UK celebrity Jimmy Savile. The former pleaded guilty and has received a suspended prison sentence as a result. The latter was never charged with any crime and therefore neither appeared in court nor received a prison sentence. On the other hand, both were tried by UK media, found guilty, and thrown to the wolves, Savile posthumously.

I recommend everyone consider the evidence or lack of it relating to the "crimes" he was supposed to have committed, every last one awarded to Savile posthumously. A good place to start is the jimcannotfixthis.blogspot.com - there are some 825 plus blogs on this resource dating back over the last decade. There are other resources too that have painstakingly sifted through the lies, the criminality, and the cowardly vendetta waged against Savile over the past decade.

Many MAPs in the collective west have suffered and continue to suffer the same fate as Edwards and Savile. I may not be able to change that destructive paradigm overnight, but evidently I see I have had to start the process right here ... of all places.