this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023

15 points (94.1% liked)

Fediverse

28564 readers

589 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to [email protected]!

Rules

Posts must be on topic.
Be respectful of others.
Cite the sources used for graphs and other statistics.
Follow the general Lemmy.world rules.

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

15

what would prevent an instance sith illegal content from spawning and trhiving? (self.fediverse)

submitted 1 year ago by Schlickers to c/fediverse

10 comments fedilink hide all child comments

By illegal I mean a lot of things It could either be piracy, black market, child pornography, etc.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] fubo 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, if I saw an instance serving child sexual-abuse material (CSAM)¹, I would report it to NCMEC and possibly also the ISP where that instance was hosted. I expect that this would lead to it being taken down by the ISP or by law enforcement.

I think a lot of other users would do the same. We might also message our home instance admins and suggest defederating from that instance; but this is secondary.

However, if I saw an instance serving (say) torrent links for pirated movies, I would not feel any need to do anything about it. The copyright industries can pay for their own enforcement.

¹ By "CSAM" I mean material involving the sexual abuse of an actual child; not fictional stories or drawings. Y'all loli/shota manga fans may be perverts but you're not molesters, and your stuff is not illegal where I live.