Cameron MacLeodJul 24, 2023

๐Ÿงต 1/5 If you've seen a headline about Mastodon & child abuse material (yikes!), some comments:

1. Mastodon is just software, not a company or a place, so this is like saying 'lots of child abusers use MS Office'
2. These sites appear in many blocklists and the admins of many Mastodon servers block them, so that crap never travels to your neighbourhood.
3. This is primarily in Japan.
4. Still bad, moderation and blocking are important areas to build up.

Link to article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/24/twitter-rival-mastodon-rife-with-child-abuse-material-study-finds/

Twitter rival Mastodon rife with child-abuse material, study finds

The report raises safety questions about alternative social media sites.

The Washington Post
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maybe I've just been fighting in the crypto-wars for too long, but it seems somewhat convenient that there's a paper about CSAM on the fediverse already getting significant press coverage just as a number of mass surveillance bills thinly veiled as protecting children are being drafted. Especially since 1. the Stanford uni report doesn't disclose where their funding comes from 2. all the available options for detecting CSAM seem to be US corporations, most of which are known to be extremely friendly with the CIA and NSA 3. it's really hard to deploy technologies like this in a privacy-preserving way #CSAM #ChatControl

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Jul 25, 2023 at 12:47amWeb