MAP Forum

Following a mini drama with my 'brother' Liam Bennett Smith, better known as Sly Boy, my blog has been getting a bit more attention. Some of my new readers clearly don't like me, which has resulted in a couple of tips to the NCMEC in fairly quick succession. In this article, I'll share a few brief thoughts about the matter.

BLueRibbon wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 11:14 amThe EU abandons all principles when it comes to MAP stuff. It is an utterly pathetic institution.

Aspire6 wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 3:19 pm There's some trolls lately mass-reporting MAP sites in hopes of getting them taken down or something, they're funny to watch, but they're just that; trolls. Nothing will happen to any of these and they're just wasting their own time until they move onto the next thing.

Not Forever wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 4:11 pm

BLueRibbon wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 11:14 amThe EU abandons all principles when it comes to MAP stuff. It is an utterly pathetic institution.

A bit like with chat control? We went from ‘cookies are dangerous’ to North Korea in the blink of an eye. Stuff that apparently even went through, in the sense that each nation will now decide what kind of control it wants to die from.

Not Forever wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 9:38 am So… now ideally it’s dangerous even just to say you played a visual novel? That you read a book with pictures? With, I assume, some vague RPG elements. I wonder if in Norway it’s also a crime to write certain books, and whether the NCMEC tattles even over a single line of text.

I wonder whether it would even be allowed in the European Union; I’m not sure how much they like the idea of U.S. organizations spying on European citizens, regardless of the reasons. Or at least on paper — in practice, I know nobody actually cares.