The individual account [email protected] has been suspended from hear-me.social because one of the images the account posted has been reported to us by Cloudflare as CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material). The account is suspended for posting illegal content (and for posting disgusting and evil content).
The images have been removed from our Media storage and any attempt to access the URLs will forever return a 451 error (Legal Block).
Wow, I'm glad I didn't go for a scroll while that was up. Thanks Jerry!
@admin
Do you have more to say about your decision to _publicly_ announce the problem web page at this stage, without an announcement that the remote image has been "taken down"?
Not all admins of third-party sites are going to see this report, or be eager to try to verify it.
(mastodon.social have a rule to reduce risk: sexually explicit content should credit the performers. Their policy on this has been to limit accounts, removing them from the hashtag, federated, and local feeds.)
@sourcejedi
Also, about determining if the remote image has been taken down, it is highly recommended that anyone receiving the report not try to view the CSAM as this would create a local cache copy which can lead to unintentional legal peril in the future.
I do not therefore know which post contained the offending picture in that account, and so cannot determine if the image is still available on that server.
I filed a report with that server. I do not know what action, if any, they took.
@admin
Thank you!
I feel a bit anxious if there will be regular public announcements "hey everyone CSAM was recently discovered someone on >this page< and it could still be up" [because we don't have two-way comms with that admin and we couldn't send specifics anyway]"
Seems like `tootctl media lookup` shows the specific post ("status"), you could have (while still quarantining the post) disabled images, or used a CLI command like "curl", if you wanted to verify the remote post was removed.
Admin Jerry
TheZorse
Alan