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It doesnβt solve the bigger moderation problem, but it solves the immediate issue for the mods who donβt want to go to jail for modding a community hosting CSM.
Doesn't that send a clear message to the perpetrators that they can cause any community to be shut down and killed and all they have to do is post CSAM to it? What makes you or anyone else think that, upon seeing that lemmyshitpost is gone, that the perpetrators will all just quit. Was lemmyshitpost the only community they were able to post in?
Yup. The perpetrators win.
If you were in their shoes, would you want to risk going to jail for kiddy porn, risk having your name associated with CSM online, or drain your personal savings account to fight these folks?
These mods are not protected by a well funded private legal team. This isnβt Reddit.
You don't have to explain how liability works. I get it. What I don't get is how removing that specific community is going to limit their liability when the perpetrators will just target a different community.
Sign-ups are manual approval applications, no more automated sign-ups from them, if they have existing accounts and target another community it'll be closed as well and those accounts banned, there isn't a stream of new accounts though because all accounts going forward need to be manually approved.
One of the ways you avoid liability is you show that you're actively taking measures to prevent illegal content.
The perps are taking a big risk as well. Finding and uploading csam means being in possession of it. So we can at least take solace in knowing it's not a tool that just anyone wiill use to take down a community.
Uploading to websites counts as distribution. The authorities will actually care about this. It's not just some small thing that is technically a crime. It's big time crime being used for skme thing petty.
So while the perp might win in the short term, they are risking their lives using this tactic. I'm not terribly worried about it becoming a common tactic
I'd anything, if I were the one doing this, I'd be worried that I might be pissing off the wrong group of people. If they keep at it and become a bigger problem, everyone is going to be looking for them. And then that person is going to big boy prison.
That is a great point. I don't know if the admin team are proactively reporting that activity to law enforcement, but I hope they are.