The proliferation of child abuse material is a problem that plagues both the centralized and decentralized web.
of the ecosystem has also been a source of contention. And, as the new Stanford study notes, the lack of centralized oversight means that there aren’t enough guardrails built into the ecosystem to defend against the proliferation of illegal and immoral content. Indeed, researchers say that over a two-day period they encountered approximately 600 pieces of either known or suspected CSAM content on top Mastodon instances.
. Even if a site has an advanced content moderation system, that doesn’t mean that system is particularly good at identifying and weeding out despicable content.from the New York Times showed that Twitter had purged a stunning 400,000 user accounts for having “created, distributed, or engaged with CSAM.
“The problem, in my opinion, is not that decentralization is somehow worse, it’s that every technical tool available for fighting CSAM was designed with a small number of centralized platforms in mind. We need new tools for a new environment, which will take engineering resources and funding.”As to which social media ecosystem suffers from a “larger” CSAM problem—the centralized or the decentralized—Thiel said he couldn’t say.
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