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If SnapChat is storing anything, they have to be sitting on one of the biggest collections of underaged nudity in the world. I've never figured out how they get around that problem without the FBI being at their throat.

Can you explain your statement about Mastodon? I’m out of the loop on that one

i think the implication is that a platform need not police its content if it is truly p2p and not actually storing or responsible for the content on it. with mastodon, the company is not running the servers people connect to in order to use mastodon, iirc.

Rumour is Snapchat is one of the world's biggest repositories of child porn, and they don't do much about it because it's mostly sent by the children themselves and core to their business.

I would estimate 100 million pictures of underage genitals go in or out of Snapchats account on Google servers every day.

Google nearly kicked them off the platform for it, but money spoke too loudly...