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Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by corb3t@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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Not a good look for Mastodon - what can be done to automate the removal of CSAM?

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[–] Feyter@programming.dev 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm always suspicious if someone argues pro Contents Filter with "protection of children" as the main argument...

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

As a parent, I'm always worried about any policy with "protect the children" as the main argument. There are lots of stupid policies proposed and sometimes implemented that are justified this way, such as:

facial recognition to prevent underage kids from playing certain video games
proof of ID to access social media and porn
complicated parental controls on devices and services

And so on.

Most of these have easy ways to circumvent these rules and absolutely violate privacy, so I will be teaching my kids how to do that. In fact, once our home Internet gets fast enough, I may route all traffic through a VPN just to avoid most of these stupid rules and instead rely on trust with my kids to keep them safe on the Internet.