I don't think the theory that consumption drives production holds true when talking about child pornography because the material can be copied infinitely, it's not a finite resource.
> I don't think the theory that consumption drives production holds true when talking about child pornography because the material can be copied infinitely, it's not a finite resource.
Exposure to more people might lure more people into becoming buyers; what's what CSAM distribution laws are trying to prevent: showing them to more people.
The link between exposure to visual material and illegal buying is IMO extremely sketchy. I mean, we can’t even get enough people to pay for legal, mainstream, consensual and officially produced porn.
Getting random people to pay for content is a pretty hard thing to do, and I’d assume illegal content wouldn’t just be taking credit cards either, so the barrier is way higher. The conversion rate looks to me to be abysmally low, and we’re trying to police the whole internet for that.
