Man Found Guilty of Child Porn, Because He Ran a Tor Exit Node::undefined

  • Quacksalber@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I mean… that is the big issue with things like tor and the decentralized youtube alternative everyone wants.

    This is an issue on Lemmy as well, one that very few so far seem to have wisened up to. If you host a server and federate it, your server will pull, store and display the content your users are watching for all to see. So you could be on the hook for distributing illegal material if you don’t preemptively defederate from instances potentially hosting content that is illegal for you to possess.

    • Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yup. Can’t find it any more, but one of the bigger instances apparently defederated from lemmynsfw over that. Not at all surprised since I think I first knew they existed when the admin (?) made that post that could be summed up as “Okay, I know I said we would allow all the loli hentai out there but a bunch of people called me a pedophile so we aren’t doing that anymore”. Didn’t really check back in, but sounds like they continued that boundary pushing and the folk who would have called Chris Hansen noped out already.

      And that is really the problem. Moderation is a thankless and incredibly time consuming job to begin with. NSFW content is a multiplier on the time and psychic damage while also meaning you have almost zero chance of monetizing that to justify a second job. So you tend to get the same crowd who are 'free speech absolutists" and don’t really understand what they are getting in to.

      It sucks because… porn is awesome. But people are crazy for getting involved with any “decentralized” service where they are storing content they themselves did not actively curate.