dude is innocent man.
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Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world 1 year agoIn summary, from what he said, he just happened to run an unrestricted exit node that some people used to upload CP.
I mean… that is the big issue with things like tor and the decentralized youtube alternative everyone wants.
You either need INCREDIBLY strict moderation, or you actually think it is sane to say things like “he just happened to run an unrestricted exit node that some people used to upload CP”
Tools like tor are INCREDIBLY useful for avoiding government suppression (even if there are quite a few questions regarding how private things actually are and how easy it is to compromise…). But I personally can’t support anything where “Oh well, I guess I accidentally supported the proliferation of CSAM”.
Like, the joke back in the day was always that if you ran an unsecured FTP server, russian porn would magically appear. And I knew a few people in undergrad who did that because of “the lolz”. And then they actually saw what was on their server and pretty much burned those drives and never went back. And while there are theoretical benefits to having public usable drop sites with minimal tracking… I am gonna more than side eye anyone who knowingly does that.
MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 1 year ago
lmaydev@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean he’s not. He did literally allow CP to be uploaded. And he literally wasn’t legally protected.
Gregorech@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But it’s kind of like arresting the gas station owner for allowing a drug deal in his parking lot.
astral_avocado@programming.dev 1 year ago
Kind of crazy how unsympathetic people are being towards Tor and Tor operators here
Quacksalber@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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 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.
astral_avocado@programming.dev 1 year ago
This is it: lemmynsfw.com/post/418317
JuvenoiaAgent@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
This is it: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1204784