Olives @olives@qoto.org

@jdp23 @thisismissem Noting that at one point, a Japanese friend of mine who runs an instance did tell me that people in the West tend to send a lot of bogus reports, because they don't like one kind of expression or another.

So, it might be preferable, if those were limited to ones which are actually actionable. Likely not relevant though.

@jdp23 @thisismissem "that would be illegal in the US" In the U.S., free expression is protected by the First Amendment (and honestly, that's a good thing).

In Japan, it would fall under Article 21 of the Constitution, which in this case, is seen as protecting free expression.

It would be inaccurate to suggest that this expression was "illegal in Western Europe".

Naturally though, real child porn is not protected by any of these.

Also, the E.U. e-Commerce Directive (similar to the U.S. Section 230) limited intermediary liability (which is a good thing for innovation / online expression) for communicating with another service.

There are additional measures which could be taken, such as not storing external content.

Of course, if real child porn appears, that can be dealt with accordingly, but it's important to give services a bit of breathing room.

As for that instance, I think it was acquired by a different company, at some point. I can't comment further on their moderation.

I've seen a post on the fedi that when it comes to moderation, you can't just look at the world the way it is today, you have to adapt to changes which come along.

@thisismissem @jdp23 Our admin caught sight of the smoke and defederated that specific instance around a month ago.

From an administrative perspective, it's hard to say he made the wrong decision (although, hard to say it's good either). It wasn't made lightly.

If there was better collaboration, you wouldn't be learning that there might be a bit of a problem from an outsider's report (who probably only discovered the fediverse not long ago).

Some parts of the network do not cache images.

This is probably done for peace of mind, more than it being likely that something will happen. It seems the person who developed Mastodon (but not other tools) didn't think about this at all.

Scanning discussions were held within communities for other software years ago, although that didn't go anywhere as it didn't look like a problem.