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.
If you read the article, there’s actually more. The problem also isn’t just that they post the material directly onto Mastodon, they also use the platform to network.
More… or less, given that US-centric CSAM detectors mark AI, CG and drawings at the same level as IRL images.
Preventing the networking, is called defederation, that’s already there.
I read the article and the study while you ignored everything else I raised in my comment.
So the problem scope is now “how to ensure people we don’t like cannot use platforms to network”? I think the term for that is “moving the goalpost” and it also doesn’t relate to anything I commented on. What’s your deal, mate? You alright?