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A silly noble once said,
“If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.”
Business criminals need to be barred from business, and criminal profits returned to the public.
Really waiting for the mass exodus from reddit. It seems like it's gotten pretty shitty over there the past year or so.
aswell as Youtube,Discord and Twitch
it kinda sucks tho that all my google searches for tech support I have to put site:reddit.com at the end because the rest of the web is shit for support
thats why let your kids use reddit,make them burn money.
but obv this should be the parents choice.
I stopped. Kind got forced to but I’m happier for it lol
Cost of doing business to them. Make fines actually hurt and then maybe something will change.
Or just prosecute them criminally, like they do with the pesants
Oh I'm sorry, which government demanded age checks which made kids give away their data to check their ages? Oh yeah.
As much as I hate Reddit this is just continuation of the UK government steamrolling and destroying the free Internet, ruining the adult experience.
One of the wonders of the Internet was that it was wildly unregulated - if you wanted it and you could disable safesearch you could get it, with the caveat of ISP-enforced content locks on all mobile data subscriptions under the name of a legal child (under 18), workplace and school security and filters, unremovable Safesearch on most search engines etc. Broadband required an adult, who in turn could activate parental controls. I couldnt wait until I turned 18 so I could finally access many sites for porn, news, gaming, forums and anything containing keywords without being blocked. I had a list of proxies for bypassing school filters.
In short there is significant existing protection in place and we know that this is simply more evidence of Orwellian enforcement.
The unregulated internet had literal child porn sites that were available to anyone.
I don't disagree with some of your points but the "wild West" internet shouldn't exist in society.
And how the fuck, exactly, are their new laws preventing CP sites from existing?
"There" are all sorts of laws regarding it.
okay so, first, were the CSAM websites illegal then? is the issue you see one of enforcement, not how the laws are written?
Yes, it has been illegal for quite some time. I'm guessing you are on the younger side?
I'm the 90s clicking a link, even one with a legit looking url, could be a rather risky proposition. On slashdot and the like many of us would deliberately avoid many random links unless someone else commented about it first.
I don't know i'm gonna have to go in for a closer look
aw damn ya got me
dude i used usenet. goatseing folks happened early 2000s
Strange. I would have figured you would have known what was going on then.
the text only music forums i was on in the 90s strangely didn't have any problems with csam. it's all where you congregate.
To be honest it probably did. There's a whole army of broken heroes behind every social media site whose job it is to block and remove that kind of content. If you didn't see anything, thank the admins.
The problem with the kinds of people who are into that kind of stuff is that they want to shove it under your nose to make you uncomfortable.
God bless the poor bastards, because they permanently sacrifice themselves to save the rest of us from the absolute fucking worst.
That is one of the few professions I would like AI to reliably take away.
Lol, you don’t understand the internet, good person, but you are the physical embodiment of its current base.
Step 1: Call fraud on a legitimate claim from someone who was there at the time.
Step 2: Boast about your long, prolific history on the Internet to establish your credentials.
Step 3: Double back because you stayed an a strangely singular lane, and as @paul points out, still avoiding getting it.
Keep on keeping on, I guess.
Well yes, the more CSAM detection and predator hunting, the better. Task forces and, dare I say it, detection programs with algorithms that may or may not include AI learning, are invaluable to eliminating the actually terrible stuff, anything that can't even be educational.
I believe the Online Safety Act and Chat Control's sections that tie every user's real identity to their online actions is not a solution, because when that data gets leaked and/or abused many innocent lives are in danger. I trust the state very little. I trust unidentified malicious hackers even less.
Leaked data doesn't even need to be dangerous to life. I, like many others, don't have "nothing to hide", but I don't still want my real name next to a list of content I've watched from streaming sites. Also I don't really want my identity tied to this pseudonym, or any other accounts on any platform. There's a crapload of problems and it would be a heaven for scammers if there was no way to stay at least relatively anonymous around the net.
Because of content. I still can't find woodworking, amarthome, soccer or F1 content or lemmy, just to name a few. I lurk in incognito mode on reddit for that, so the ads don't have any data about me.
/u/Spez (creator of /r/jailbait) should be in the car next to Andrew and on the gallows next to Trumpstein.
It was created by Violentacrez, not spez.
Prior to late 2012, it was possible to make someone a moderator of a subreddit without their consent, which was sometimes done as a joke or harassment. That's why spez was briefly a moderator of r/jailbait.
Fair point! But he still created a website that allowed that kind of content and is a POS human that deserves what he gets.
I must also point out that he did not work at Reddit between 2009 and 2015.
I'm not going to try to talk you out of hating spez, but maybe try hating him for something he actually did.
Not sure what that timeframe has to do with anything. I hate him for his role in reddit.
reddit was created in 2005, so (and please forgive the rounding errors i do not like mathing before coffee OH CRAP) spez worked there for four years, then took six years off, then worked there again? whatever that means.
I know that. Not sure why you guys think that's relevant. He still created reddit and manages it now.
Not sure what that timeframe has to do with anything
i was answering your question, sorry.
Gotcha. To me it sounds like you guys are trying to refute an allegation I'm not making. (that he was involved with epstein)
wtf are you on dude
Ah there we go.
This is why I didn't assume you're responding in good faith lol
I'm not defending the guy but wasn't it that a mod of that subreddit added him as a mod as a joke? I don't think spez created it.
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Garbage fine by tyrannical government trying to police what you do online. Stop age verification!
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