Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem
Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem
Researchers found CSAM within five minutes of searching Mastodon.
Windows is the No. 1 OS amongst cocaine, heroine and meth dealers. Time for a crackdown.
And here we go with the corporation funded clickbait folks...
And here we go.
This will be one of the Fediverse's biggest obstacles.
Need to get this under control somehow or else in a few years, tech companies, banks, and regulators will decide a crackdown on the fediverse as a whole is needed.
The fediverse is the name for services that use ActivityPub - a communication protocol. What you are saying is like saying “tech companies, banks and regulators need to crack down on http because there is CSAM on the web”.
A few years? I bet Threads is doing this right now to shut down every private instance and take the fediverse for themselves. They'll argue they are the only one that can moderate the content due to their size/resources
You act like fediverse is one website, and its not.
I think they're speaking from the point-of-view of an uneducated body of legislators and average people who will not understand this
It doesn't matter what we know the nature of the fediverse to be -- it matters how they perceive it, and uninformed people are perfect targets for this type of FUD
For example, the linked article exists
Far-right instances Gab and TruthSocial are also technically mastodon. By this metric mastodon also has a nazi problem.
Any software that allows people to communicate over the internet will be used by horrible people to do horrible things.
100% of all child abusers have drank water in the last two days. Clearly water is the problem here.
Well, then http[s] also has this problem
People need to read the actual report it is actually reasonable in its findings and actually offers solutions: https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/addressing-child-exploitation-federated-social-media
Just added “Stanford researchers” to my list of stupid people
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/20/stanford-president-resigns-following-research-ethics-probe
The president of Stanford University has stepped down in the wake of an independent investigation that found “substandard practices” in research papers he was involved in.
Already plenty of support for your cause.
We need more tools, more automation, in order to fight the trash
Anything that allows people to escape their corporate controls will be ostracized by these people. I laugh in LEMMY
Shouldn't it be possible to create open-source bots that use the same databases as the researchers to automatically flag and block that kind of content?
Those databases are highly regulated, as they are, themselves CSAM
Apple tried to do fuzzy hashes to download them to devices, and it wasn’t able to reliably identify things at all
Somewhere we went from finding those who do wrong and punishing them to censor everything because everyone is bad.
The Apache foundation has got a huge child sex problem. They must be policed by Microsoft. /s
They’re basically saying the fediverse has a bunch of creeps lurking.
Reposting because the comments on the earlier post were far too informative in explaining the truth.
So they went on mastodon and started searching for CP? WTF is wrong with these sick people? I hope they're on an FBI list now.
So your advice to any organization seeking to minimize illegal activity is to willfully ignore any trace of it?
"I swear, officer, I was just searching for CP to catch OTHER people!"
It would be just as pathetic as that scene from Something About Mary. "Yeah I was just going to pee, too!"
Maybe they had some kind of legal sanctioning to do it, but holy crap, I wouldn't want that in my search history. I would hope software like that has some mechanism where if people search for certain words it results in an automatic reporting to some FBI API somewhere. I actually know of a couple of people who got caught with that stuff. One got 25 years. The other jumped bail and they eventually caught him. I'm not sure if he's been sentenced yet but I bet he'll get double of what the other guy who cooperated got. Those people are creepy AF and nobody in their right mind would want to be associated with any of it. Those people are 10 times worse than neo nazis.
The funny thing is the first guy, everybody could kind of tell he was a creep. But the FBI caught him and he completely cooperated and admitted everything. The second guy, he really seemed like he was going to be the only person in his family who actually turned out to be a decent guy. He was a really sweet kid in a super trashy family. And then all of a sudden everything goes down and everybody is in shock. Then he jumps bail. Last I heard his dad was about to lose his house because he used it as collateral to bail his piece of shit son out of jail.
This open source software needs to include code that reports certain search terms. There are ML algorithms out there that can automatically detect this stuff. Do not search for that kind of content, thinking you're some sort of vigilante. There are ways to deal with this shit without putting yourself in serious legal peril.