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> reputation for cp and other forms of abuse

That "reputation" is slander from haters and those who don't want others to have nice things

Another example is JD Vance, creating an account, making his first post to trans troll [1], and then crowing about how awful Bluesky was to him and how he got blocked. He's still posting as recently as July 4, but he's really just become mostly a social media troll, and Bluesky users generally block trolls instead of engaging them

[1] https://blebbit.app/at/did:plc:tkspefzlu72575kljanhe3uj/app.... (3rd of the 3 part post)

> CSAM content on Bluesky has risen ten times in just a week

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41474672

Peculiar hill you choose to die on.

And then you can see my reply to that right at the top, so thanks, newly created anon account, for helping to add clarity to the situation

Bluesky is one of the partners with Roost and working to address this societal level problem. Nothing particularly unique to any company when it comes to CSAM

https://roost.tools/partnerships

The roost crew has been great. I’m happy to be working with them

It is a social media platform that allows image posts. Allowing adult content is by design. Draconian "internet safety" laws like this one really should not be a reasonable expectation for what you will have to put your users through to see nude photos on the internet.

I'm also not sure where that supposed reputation is coming from, because my experience is that they've been criticized for over-moderation, if anything...

I agree with most of what you say. Internet safety is only a cover for other intentions in such laws. But there is a legitimate need to protect kids from the dangers that lurk online. Things like nudity, drugs, violence, radicalism, vanity culture, fake news, etc have a disproportionate and lasting impact on children (and even for adults in many cases. But they at least have an incentive to avoid it on account of being held responsible for their own actions). But it's even worse than that because there are those that specifically seek out and target vulnerable population like children.

Parental supervision often isn't enough, because there are several circumstances where kids circumvent it, the least of which is that an average kid is way more crafty than an average adult. And education isn't enough either, because that only teaches them what is bad. Kids are naturally prone to trying out what they know to be risky actions (which is why they have less legal liability than adults).

What would be a proper and sincere solution to that problem?

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