I was recently thinking about how amazing it is that with this decentralized community we would have no censorship from big corporations and then I asked myself: what about illegal content? The kind of content that really should not be shared? As an example, what if someone creates a Lemmy instance and starts creating a community around CP? Or human trafficking? How do we deal with it? I know that instances can choose with whom they can access the content, so if most popular instances blacklist that “illegal” instance its content wouldn’t be easily visible, but it would still be in the Fediverse. Also, will all popular instances have to be quick to blacklist these “illegal” instances? Isn’t that a little to difficult? If we go the other way, where they create a whitelist, wouldn’t that harm small legit instances? Is there a plan to fight off illegal content?

  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Same with the Internet. There aren’t any real open human trafficking or child porn sites online. Most hosting companies won’t host them, most protection companies won’t hold off ddos attacks and if they tried to do self hosting, their jurisdiction may blast down their doors and raid them. If somehow all of that doesn’t happen, countries will block them anyway and if not that, then communities can defederate from them.

    Stuff like Discord is more of a risk as it is bigger so less moderation resources and it’s private