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FarmVille said:
No it’s not. Platforms are legally not responsible for the content users post. Under section 230 the poster of CP is responsible, not Reddit.
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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.

@AnOminous can shed more light on this I'm sure, but Section 230 clearly states that internet companies aren't protected from civil cases brought under Title 18 Section 1595.
 
Shaka Brah said:
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.

@AnOminous can shed more light on this I'm sure, but Section 230 clearly states that internet companies aren't protected from civil cases brought under Title 18 Section 1595.
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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.

I’m not saying I agree that sites shouldn’t be held accountable for CP content but the way the law exists and the power of social media lobbying has made it extremely difficult to prosecute.

FarmVille said:
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.

I’m not saying I agree that sites shouldn’t be held accountable for CP content but the way the law exists and the power of social media lobbying has made it extremely difficult to prosecute.
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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.
 
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FarmVille said:
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.
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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.
 
Shaka Brah said:
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.
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Photodna can only identify existing imagery from its database, it cannot determine if an image is CP.
 
FarmVille said:
Photodna can only identify existing imagery from its database, it cannot determine if an image is CP.
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Shaka Brah said:
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The image is reported then photodna corresponds the image to a series of hashes so the image can be identified regardless of cropping, lightning, pixelation, etc it’s not an instantaneous process. I don’t know how often these tools are updated or how Reddit uses them.

But anyway, the main argument is that Reddit benefits from CP being posted because this is something advertisers want….which is pretty specious reasoning. Advertisers don’t want their ads showing up next to CP. I don’t believe FB or Reddit or Instagram or whatever actively want or benefit from CP on their platforms. Unfortunately that’s pretty much the standard needed.
 
Redditor builds up curiosity by making up fake and gay story (video):

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Instead of delivering (exploring the room), he proceeds to ask for funds and gets called out for his scam attempt:

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FarmVille said:
Photodna can only identify existing imagery from its database, it cannot determine if an image is CP.
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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.
 
 
Baked Al-Aqsa said:
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?
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They don't actually care if kids access the material, just if it's SOPA compliant or whatever.
 
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eDove said:
That too-hot-to-handle user is basically one of the reasons I stopped using Reddit a long time ago. It's so annoying to see people act as though they're the final authority on any given topic. The "PLEASE PLEASE EDUCATE YOURSELF" attitude is so condescending.

They're not wrong. Sticking food in your vagina's a dumb idea, but they're not factoring in that this could've been one freak incident, one drunken lapse of judgment that'll likely never happen again. They're speaking as if OP's a tweleve-year-old prematurely engaging in these risky sex acts.
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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 think this particular post is a troll though. Surely no reasonable person would do anything  other than go to the doctor when they can't remove something from a bodily orifice, but I've seen people post more retarded shit before.
 
Remember Evergreen college in Washington state where the students barricaded the president in his own office and wouldn’t let him go pee? Well if you haven’t, Benjamin Boyce has a great documentary on it on YouTube.

R/evergreen is mostly inquiring potential students it seems, but this person demonstrates that the cursed school still attracts loons (and this loon is a troon ofc) and the loon troons still try and cancel their professors.

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Highlights:

"Laughing at a pregnancy announcement"

"Telling trans and queer students to stay in the closet"

"Whispering "You look like a beat dog" seconds before their presentation"

"Telling students they had no real friends except those online"

https://www.reddit.com/r/evergreen/...urce=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Some good comments by OP as well.
 
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r/Femaledatingstrategy just moved off reddit

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r/Femaledatingstrategy just moved off reddit

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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.

Also, their new site (looks like a shitty Wix site) by default shows their username as the first part of their email, so there's potential there. Also many of them are using their Facebook or other profile pics as their new account picture....
 
Fetish Roulette said:
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.
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FDS is basically an incel subreddit. That aside their members frequently mob and brigade other subreddits which is a TOS violation.

I'm shocked they lasted this long.
 
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