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Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem (www.theverge.com)
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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6795142

Mastodon, an alternative social network to Twitter, has a serious problem with child sexual abuse material according to researchers from Stanford University. In just two days, researchers found over 100 instances of known CSAM across over 325,000 posts on Mastodon. The researchers found hundreds of posts containing CSAM related hashtags and links pointing to CSAM trading and grooming of minors. One Mastodon server was even taken down for a period of time due to CSAM being posted. The researchers suggest that decentralized networks like Mastodon need to implement more robust moderation tools and reporting mechanisms to address the prevalence of CSAM.

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[-] mojo@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

There isn't except going for server owners or infiltrating groups like they already do. Same can be said about encryption or even TCP protocol is being used to distribute CP. You simply can't add CSAM protection for everything, nor should you. That leads to a surveillance state.

It's an unfortunate byproduct of privacy that it will be used for evil, but that doesn't mean we get rid of security. That's how fascism begins.

[-] sciawp@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I was literally just thinking about this and I think you're right

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