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Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem
Submitted 1 year ago by sammeeeeeee@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 1 year ago
LexiconDexicon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And here we go with the corporation funded clickbait folks…
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And here we go.
This will be one of the Fediverse’s biggest obstacles.
Need to get this under control somehow or else in a few years, tech companies, banks, and regulators will decide a crackdown on the fediverse as a whole is needed.
InternetTubes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Basically, fediverse instances need to begin to agree to which blocklists they use. Problem solved.
HKayn@dormi.zone 1 year ago
I’m afraid a blocklist won’t be enough. As anyone can just spin up an instance or move their existing one to a domain that isn’t in the blocklist yet, a centralized whitelist will be the safer solution.
TheNotorious7113@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Would some sort of loosely organized group of instance admins help to make this happen? Like the U.N. for the fediverse? Sounds like a structured communication system would fix this.
cerevant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The fediverse is the name for services that use ActivityPub - a communication protocol. What you are saying is like saying “tech companies, banks and regulators need to crack down on http because there is CSAM on the web”.
weedazz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A few years? I bet Threads is doing this right now to shut down every private instance and take the fediverse for themselves. They’ll argue they are the only one that can moderate the content due to their size/resources
Blamemeta@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You act like fediverse is one website, and its not.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 1 year ago
I think they’re speaking from the point-of-view of an uneducated body of legislators and average people who will not understand this
It doesn’t matter what we know the nature of the fediverse to be – it matters how they perceive it, and uninformed people are perfect targets for this type of FUD
For example, the linked article exists
mbelcher@kbin.social 1 year ago
Far-right instances Gab and TruthSocial are also technically mastodon. By this metric mastodon also has a nazi problem.
Any software that allows people to communicate over the internet will be used by horrible people to do horrible things.
demonsword@lemmy.world 1 year ago
100% of all child abusers have drank water in the last two days. Clearly water is the problem here.
syntacticmistake@kbin.social 1 year ago
People need to read the actual report it is actually reasonable in its findings and actually offers solutions: https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/addressing-child-exploitation-federated-social-media
Glarrf@midwest.social 1 year ago
We need more tools, more automation, in order to fight the trash
ptsdstillinmymind@lemmy.studio 1 year ago
Anything that allows people to escape their corporate controls will be ostracized by these people. I laugh in LEMMY
JazzAlien@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Reposting because the comments on the earlier post were far too informative in explaining the truth.
Metal_Zealot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s like child molesters texting each other, and then saying “TELUS AND BELL ARE PERPETUATING A CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING RING”
whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Shouldn’t it be possible to create open-source bots that use the same databases as the researchers to automatically flag and block that kind of content?
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Those databases are highly regulated, as they are, themselves CSAM
Apple tried to do fuzzy hashes to download them to devices, and it wasn’t able to reliably identify things at all
woefkardoes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Somewhere we went from finding those who do wrong and punishing them to censor everything because everyone is bad.
Techmaster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So they went on mastodon and started searching for CP? WTF is wrong with these sick people? I hope they’re on an FBI list now.
deong@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So your advice to any organization seeking to minimize illegal activity is to willfully ignore any trace of it?
Techmaster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“I swear, officer, I was just searching for CP to catch OTHER people!”
It would be just as pathetic as that scene from Something About Mary. “Yeah I was just going to pee, too!”
Maybe they had some kind of legal sanctioning to do it, but holy crap, I wouldn’t want that in my search history. I would hope software like that has some mechanism where if people search for certain words it results in an automatic reporting to some FBI API somewhere. I actually know of a couple of people who got caught with that stuff. One got 25 years. The other jumped bail and they eventually caught him. I’m not sure if he’s been sentenced yet but I bet he’ll get double of what the other guy who cooperated got. Those people are creepy AF and nobody in their right mind would want to be associated with any of it. Those people are 10 times worse than neo nazis.
CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Mastodon is a Software, the stuff is hosted by others. What a idiotic, click bait and wrong headline.
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s software that also serves as a method to distribute and access it. But ultimately, it doesn’t matter, the resulting pushback will be the same.
The conclusion of the study was basically that the biggest players should enter the fediverse in order to use their capabilities to scan and police it.
Wherever this shit exists, unwanted attention and scrutiny will follow.
DarkThoughts@kbin.social 1 year ago
That's like blaming vbulletin for Nazi forums or something.
CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
This will literally do nothing, the people conducting the study obviously have absolutely no idea how federation and the fediverse in general work…
And the big Players will be thrown out by everyone else, we are here because we hate them.
recursive_recursion@programming.dev 1 year ago
Not sure if that would work as users are fleeing from those big players as they don’t prioritize the safety and needs of their users.
The contradictory problem is that current major corporations prioritize money at all costs even at the expense of their users so their customer base flee to the next best service/product provider.
People are currently abandoning Reddit and Twitter because their moderation system either doesn’t work or has underlying contradictions to what users are asking for.
Facebook launched Threads and people only joined initially due to FOMO. With how transparent they are in harvesting user data at the expense of people’s privacy I think (and hope) that people are starting to realize that this is probably not in their best interests.
I think what we’re seeing is evolutionary filtration of the web similar to natural ecosystems where the species with the highest ability to adapt that survives.
Based off of one metric it seems that companies structured around proprietary software (zero-sum systems) are unsustainable. This is my untested observation however so this could be true currently but systemically wrong once examined and tested.
So the idea that
doesn’t seem to make the most logical sense as the foundation for those companies is untrustworthy and unsustainable.
Synthead@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yup. Might as well blame Nginx.