Comment by 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.
> 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.
Well work on making those resources available instead of, again, informing CSAM creators how to better hide their activities. I fail to see how repeatedly removing CSAM from a single IP address is more of a boon to CSAM distributors than playing whackamole with multiple IP addresses. Wasting law enforcement resources on other things while CSAM producers are free to operate is a separate, and in my opinion much more pressing issue.
> Wasting law enforcement resources on other things while CSAM producers are free to operate is a separate
It's been a long time since I had anything remotely to do with this (thankfully) but... I'm pretty sure there are lots of resources devoted to this, including the major (and even small) platforms working with various authorities to catch these people? Certainly to say they're "free to operate" requires some convincing.
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> informing CSAM creators how to better hide their activities
This adds to their risks and costs. That tips the economic balance at the margin. Actually going after all creators would require an international law-enforcement effort for which, frankly, there isn't political capital.
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Yes, we should let people "self-incriminate" with Tor and disposable email services...
We're talking about websites like Youtube implementing hardware and IP bans. If your argument is that these are easily circumventable by CSAM distributors, that seems like all the more reason not to use them to combat CSAM.