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Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem (www.theverge.com)
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Not a good look for Mastodon - what can be done to automate the removal of CSAM?

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[–] 33 points 3 years ago (4 children)

I get what you're saying, but due to federated nature, those CSAMs can easily spread to many instances without their admins noticing them. Having even one CSAM in your server is a huge risk for the server owner.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I don't see what a server admin can do about it other than defederate the instant they get reports. Otherwise how can they possibly know?

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  • [–] -5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    This could be a really big issue though. People can make instances for really hateful and disgusting crap but even if everyone defederates from them it's still giving them a platform, a tiny tiny corner on the internet to talk about truly horrible topics.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago

    Those corners will exist no matter what service they use and there is nothing Mastodon can do to stop this. There's a reason there are public lists of instances to defederate. This content can only be prevented by domain providers and governments.

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