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Mastodon: A Social Media Platform Dominated by Pedophiles and Child Porn

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To explain why the content seemingly evades the law: the article is consistently referring to drawn / computer generated content.

The legality of which can be gleaned from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_porn...

I find that the seemingly intentional foot-noting of the class of content they are talking about, to be really dishonest.

I wasn't trying to be dishonest, possession of the material you are referring to is a serious federal crime in the United States. Furthermore, I find it sickening that some of you do not agree with me, or the law, on this subject and think it's ok.

Lolicon is child sexual abuse material.

I have seen literally zero porn since joining the platform months ago, long before the latest waves of post-Elon Twitter refugees. I honestly haven't the slightest idea where any of this is coming from. I'm sure there are some nasty instances out there, but, like, it really doesn't need to affect legit users of legit instances in any way.

I've seen plenty of porn, but then I'm on a porn-themed instance on purpose. Haven't seen any child porn though. I'm sure there's instances out there that DO have child porn but I can only imagine they get defederated in a real hurry if their policy is to allow child porn.

Mastodon isn't one monolithic thing.

All instances I see federating to everyone else, they all handle CSAM reasonably quickly

Well if 3000 of us share a handful of photos each and 3 perverts compulsively collect 10M pornographic pics you could say that most of the photos in town are offensive porn. It wouldn't be a useful analysis but it would be technically correct.

You could also say all the worst people in the world use web technologies and that any search of the web that doesn't explicitly filter out porn is entirely full of porn including horrifying shit.

It's not the job of html or mastodon to make it impossible to use them to distribute content. If anything the biggest problem described is with the Japanese allowing child porn to flourish in their border and their isn't a technical solution to their problems.

Obviously, the article talks of lack of enforcement in Japan regsrding child pornography, or those two large instances would long have gone offline.

This is why we say "there are lies, damn lies and statistics": the article makes use of the numbers for two (admittedly very large and active) instances in comparison with the rest of the fediverse to claim how platform is to blame and the majority of all mastodone users are paedophiles.

It even makes an apt comparison earlier in calling "Facebook the internet", but then makes the same fallacy.

Fediverse is a group of social platforms allowing easy sharing through the use of common protocols. Like the web, or email, or...

You can certainly blame the internet for all the crap it houses.

Just how gun factories are to blame for all gun-related violence.

I hope they use Mastodon. Because then it'll be trivial for authorities to find out and seize the offending server and probably most of the users if it's part of the global federation.

Lol. The guardian has run a number of promotional articles on this plstform, perhaps they should have done a little more research first.

Of course there will be child pornography on self-hosted social networking servers. Just as with owncloud instances, shady ftp hosts, etc.

Same with political extremists. It's unfortunate all of this exists, but it's a side effect of freedom to self-host.

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