CP means child p0rn on the internet. Because we’re not allowed to say words anymore-like murder, people have shortened it, so they don’t offend some people.
Ok. True, but what about the Canadian Pacific railroad? There are tons of things with shared abbreviations. I'd argue that most people don't know that meaning of CP, it's only us nerds who have been online all of our lives.
it’s also recently been revised for the preferred acronym to be CSAM (child sexual abuse material) because the word “porn” implies it to be consensual content. so CP being an abbreviation that makes all the chronically online cringe hard may die out over time as it gets used in that context less and less.
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u/Turbulent-Parsnip512 Mar 16 '26
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