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Comment by moomoo11

5 months ago

I think hardware and ip level bans.. should be banned.

I know that some services do this in addition to account ban.

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ocdtrekkie  5 months ago

Any service which allows user generated content and allows arbitrary IP addresses to create infinite accounts is guaranteed to be overrun with CSAM. It's practically a law of physics.

  • jjk166  5 months ago

    If you actually cared about CSAM you would want those posting it to self incriminate and then face consequences in real life at the hands of actual authorities. Websites banning such posters only serves to alert them that they need to improve their tactics and give them the opportunity to hide. Removing only the offending content and alerting authorities is the appropriate thing a website like Youtube should be doing.

    Even if one does argue that CSAM should result in hardware and IP bans, there's no reason that can't be a sole exception to a wider prohibition on such bans.

    • JumpCrisscross  5 months ago

      > If you actually cared about CSAM you would want those posting it to self incriminate and then face consequences in real life

      We don’t have the resources for this, even when the FBI isn’t being purged and sent to Home Depots. Unrestricting IPs means a boom for CSAM production and distribution.

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