Australia has fined X Australia over child sex abuse material concerns. How severe is the issue – and what happens now?

The platform formerly known as Twitter faces a A$610,500 penalty from the eSafety Commissioner.

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There's plenty of things everyone wishes tech could do but it can't, and #WantingItBadlyIsntEnough. Merely shouting #NerdHarder at geeks won't actually get you what you want. And while I'm rattling off cliches: a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Which brings me to #AshtonKutcher. Yes, *that* Ashton Kutcher. No, *really*. Kutcher has taken up the admirable, essential cause of fighting #ChildSexAbuseMaterial (#CSAM, which is better known as #ChildPornography) online.

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If a server tolerates hate speech or harassment, you can go elsewhere, preferably somewhere that blocks your previous server.

But there are other kinds of speech that must not exist - either because they are illegal or because they enact harms that can't be mitigated by going elsewhere (or both). The most spectacular version of this is #ChildSexAbuseMaterial (#CSAM), a modern term-of-art to replace the more familiar "child porn."

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