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by synetic 1058 days ago
A social network has a duty to take reasonable steps to ensure that bad people can’t easily conspire together to do their bad deeds. Society has a problem in that people engage in shitty behavior. One way societies combat this is by limiting the ability of like minded people from openly sharing the effects of their misdeeds.

Do you think it’s OK for a convention center to host a meeting where attendees are passing around photographs of CSAM to each other? Why treat the online world differently than the offline world in this regard?
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pornel 1058 days ago
Mastodon is both a social network, and a mere server software.

The social network side of Mastodon, connected around mastodon.social, has quite strong moderation, and they block other Mastodon instances for even lesser transgressions.

But anyone can run a Mastodon server disconnected from the trunk of the social network, and make their own fringe network. These instances are a problem, but it's Mastodon's fault as much as Apache and Nginx are responsible for serving CSAM.

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synetic 1058 days ago
It’s been a long time since I programmed and was up to date about these things. In my eyes Mastodon means “Twitter” without moderation. The lack of moderation would be a problem. I have an extreme view in the sense that I think humanity is not yet developed enough to have easy, cheap, anonymous community building at scale be a thing.

Thanks for the clarification. I’ll have think more about what I consider appropriate as far as it concerns Mastodon.

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