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by danielweber 4986 days ago
"No one could possibly monitor that" is the same argument the pro-creepshot people use to explain why you can't ban pictures of children or candid pictures. Apparently because they think the only way to solve that is to hire a PI to painstakingly investigate each and every submission.

Those are both nuts. You handle the issue the way adults handle the issue:

1. Say "you can't post X."

2. Count on the fact that most people won't post X once you tell them not to (on pains of account sanction, which are already in place for rules against things like spam).

3. Deal with the complains of false positives and false negatives on a case-by-case basis.