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Research - Managing CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) on decentralized social media protocols.

https://purl.stanford.edu/vb515nd6874

I thought this paper was worth a read. It goes in to how child sexual abuse material is discoved and shared on social media. Mostly it talks about the fediverse, nostr is mentioned only to say they’re aware of nostr and it has different issue than the fediverse. We will have to deal with this stuff, relay operators and media hosts in particular are potentially liable. Nostr.build already has a content moderation team, others are going to need to do something or risk losing their domain name like has happened to some mastodon servers.

AngryMulbear 2y ago

Good read, certainly opens my eyes to things I didn't know were going on.

That said, I have a hard time grasping how any node operator could implement the recommendations suggested.

Big Tech spends millions to police this stuff, many of the tools needed are financially out of reach. Even PhotoDNA which is free, is only available to "qualified" organizations.

I fear that this gatekeeping of CSAM moderation tools will be used to justify the continued centralization of the internet.

"Think of the children" has long been used as an excuse to infringe on our rights. Big Tech won't hesitate to use it to squash #Nostr in it's infancy. Too many $$$ at stake.

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Loki 2y ago

They won't "squash" nostr, they will just try to take control of the bulk of the relay traffic either directly or indirectly, buying out or leaning on them. There will be show trials.

Just as none of this ever stopped 4Chan or TheHive or any of the other web 2.0 type freedom of speech platforms from continuing to exist, their ability to squash Nostr is far smaller, since the protocol is designed for being able to work even from a swarm made of home user's connections and a small number of VPS systems in friendly jurisdictions.

A lot of nostriches are in for a little shock to learn that they are gonna have to work for their freedom, and take risks.

Geist 2y ago

4chan is heavily moderated, they just have few rules. Home user nodes arent the simplest solution either, you run a home node how are people connecting? If I run mine behind a VPN then I need a static IP or domain name, either of which can be targeted. If I don't then the feds are kicking my door in. If I run it behind TOR then I'm screwing the network over with cat memes. 4chan is allowed to exist, like you said in the other post, the tools to hamper our activities exist already through targeting DNS. I'm certainly open to having this totally wrong, I'm thinking about ways to subvert this specific issue every day. Maybe we need some kind of decentralized DNS.