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Instagram will blur nudes in messages sent to minors (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

why the hell don’t they just ban the accounts that try to send nudes to minors?

Because they are sent from minors to minors too? Teens are horny, they copy adults making nudes, sometimes just sharing porn. Recently there were problems with classmates using pornLLM to undress their peers. The abuse problem is harsher, but I feel it's the minority of nudes received by minors. Honestly, I'd have changed the EULA to forbid it on a public service like Insta, because unlike messengers there is everything to be deanonymized and explicitly targeted by an abuser, including stalking and threats IRL. For Insta, there could be a rule to ban uploading images to Direct of <18 y.o. users, only reposts, meaning they are publically availiable and may get reported by other users and brought down by existing policies without breaking E2EE.

[–] RmDebArc_5@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Because they are sent from minors to minors too?

This could be different depending on the country, but in Germany that would still be illegal. I don’t think a rule like you suggest would ever happen if not forced by law

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I haven't heard of that law be strictly enforced tho. For one reason - teens are stupid and don't know laws, even though they fall under them. But yeah, most civilized places have laws against production of minor porn that doesn't specify age, but can walk around the problem if it's produced by a consenting party, of themselves, and without a big age difference.

[–] Quik@infosec.pub 1 points 7 months ago

The "problem" here (if you think so) is that if law enforcement in Germany gets to know about a case like this, they cannot choose themselves not to act on it.