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How is this different than the World Wide Web in general?

Post has been flagged. Pasting my reply to the person replying to me below:

I guess the answer to my question is that if more people migrate to Mastodon it supports the development of a tool of great use to CSAM, and until recently of primary use by CSAM-affiliated individuals.

Government intervention is probably the best means of preventing this use of Mastodon. Unlike distributed cryptocurrencies it should be much easier to shut down Mastodon instances promoting illegal acts than it would be to prevent the promotion of illegal acts via crypto.

As an aside I'm somewhat weirded out by the images the linked site chooses for many of their articles.

It's not. But you can't whip up a froth of moral panic with something that's been around for 30 years at this point. You have to go after a Hot New Thing that's been grabbing a lot of headlines.

It's a little bit different. The keyword is dominated. Are the 2nd and 3rd most trafficked websites on the internet devoted to sharing CSAM or "loli" content as some users disturbingly call it?

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