Can’t really blame them. There’s a big difference between “I got drunk last weekend and was SO hungover the next day” and “I drink a 5th a day to keep the withdrawals away and my livers failing.” Think of it like a troon comparing their PTSD from being misgendered to an army vet that saw their friends die.
Reddit can be held civilly and even criminally liable if it knowingly profits from material related to sex trafficking or sexual abuse. Continuing to host such material after a lawful request to remove it puts them within the range of the carve-out for sex crime laws in Section 230(e). The plaintiff asserts that moderators of reddit coerced sexually explicit material from minors, distributed it on reddit, and that reddit's paid staff failed to halt these activities once alerted.
Arguing that a social media company knowingly benefits from enabling the spread of child pornography is an extremely high bar to reach. If you read the appeal it’s arguing that advertisers are specifically drawn to subreddits that host child pornography—which is a pretty wild claim.
The document also seems to be making the case that there’s some kind of software you can run that immediately detects CP which is not at all true. It’s a weird case.
About a decade ago Microsoft developed a tool that hashes and does a similarity check of images with low overhead called PhotoDNA. It was given to the US Government and the NMEC to distribute for free as a charitable gesture to help major social media sites detect CSAM and stop its spread. I presume they're referring to that.
Advanced systems detect both known CSAM, as well as using facial recognition to learn the faces of abused girls. If facial recognition sees a novel image of a girl aged 8-12 who is known to be abused, it's a good idea to flag it even if it's new to the system.
How is this supposed to stop minors from accessing this stuff? Do kids not know how to make accounts with a random birthday over 21 anymore?
They don't actually care if kids access the material, just if it's SOPA compliant or whatever.
This is one of the main reasons I abandoned Reddit so many years ago. The majority of users act like perfect angels who can do no wrong and you can feel the eye-rolling in their posts. Often times, the posts would be misinformed or outright wrong and yet everyone circlejerks about how right they are, defending their incorrectness tooth and nail, finding excuses for every mistake. Redditors see themselves as infallible even on matters of opinion and that's why it's so bad to get le downdoots and go against the hivemind.
i mean they're not wrong about the anti-lesbian and pro-pedo stuff, but these women are their own special brand of insanity. The website is probably mostly for a grift, but we'll see.
I'd bet this is the result of behind-the-scenes admin bullying. Getting rid of unsavory subreddits before the IPO is likely a top priority for management, and FDS certainly fits the bill.
FDS is basically an incel subreddit. That aside their members frequently mob and brigade other subreddits which is a TOS violation.
