Comment on Australia fines Musk's X platform $386,000 over anti-child abuse gaps

blazera@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• squiblet@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fediverse is a bunch of independent websites potentially connected by compatible software, not one entity, so there’s not really a basis for comparison. You could ask about individual instances.

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  • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Does responding with the poop emoji count?

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  • blazera@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The article has their response. Given their warning to google as well, apparently the responses also have to be good enough for them.

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    • squiblet@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They said

      X's noncompliance was more serious, the regulator said, including failure to answer questions about how long it took to respond to reports of child abuse, steps it took to detect child abuse in livestreams and its numbers of content moderation, safety and public policy staff.

      So yes, all the questions need to be at least addressed and probably saying “we don’t do that because Elron doesn’t care about it” wouldn’t suffice either.

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      • blazera@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Cool, see my first comment again

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• doctorn@r.nf ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Since there is no hierarchical top general moderator/admin and every instance is under supervision by the respective owners of these instances, responsibility of safety is technically forwarded to individual instance admins as far as their instance goes. Or that’s what I make of it at least, anyone feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. Also, the above conclusion does not include any possible random future law made up to state differently (decision-making entities have weird unpredictable logics… 😅)

  As far as for Mastodon itself, it could use some upgrades in its user management and reporting features, though (an option to automate instant reactions (like tempban until reviewed) on certain categories of reports (like child abuse and extreme/shocking violence) to prevent anyone reported for the those kinds of things actively being able to continue until an admin sees and processes the report and reports are definitely not visible enough yet).

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  • blazera@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And things like automatic detection and direct message surveillance like these regulators are asking for?

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    • doctorn@r.nf ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, if those become necessary I’ll just have to add Mastodon, along with anything known too well, in the bin for government-ruined software and start using hidden services… I will never willfully comply to spyware, not even (read: especially not) government-approved ones.

      I have no idea if Mastodon has any plans adding those to the instance software though… Probably will if they get lawfully obligated I suppose, but I still sincerely hope not (as I still also sincerely hope this proposal gets dismissed for the obvious contradicting privacy laws it breaks and the vulnerabilities of backdoors).

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• abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “The Fediverse” is about 13,000 people/companies that are each individually responsible for illegal content. Some are doing well, some are not… but I expect the majority of them are doing far better…

  Many hands make light work, and the fediverse has tens of thousands of moderators. I’m not sure if X has any, he fired them all.

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