cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6795142
Mastodon, an alternative social network to Twitter, has a serious problem with child sexual abuse material according to researchers from Stanford University. In just two days, researchers found over 100 instances of known CSAM across over 325,000 posts on Mastodon. The researchers found hundreds of posts containing CSAM related hashtags and links pointing to CSAM trading and grooming of minors. One Mastodon server was even taken down for a period of time due to CSAM being posted. The researchers suggest that decentralized networks like Mastodon need to implement more robust moderation tools and reporting mechanisms to address the prevalence of CSAM.
yep, i use Cloudflare’s CSAM tool to help aid in this… scans all object storage and cached items against known CSAM hashes. i don’t think most people hosting instances consider this as a massive liability if it’s open to the web for all to see… the feds (only talking about USA here) will shut you down or worse threaten charges if nothing is done about it.