Edit - This is a post to the meta group of Blåhaj Lemmy. It is not intended for the entire lemmyverse. If you are not on Blåhaj Lemmy and plan on dropping in to offer your opinion on how we are doing things in a way you don’t agree with, your post will be removed....
but I personally don’t think the original incident was that big of a deal
The post I saw looked like an underage teenage girl. It was reported as child porn and looked like it to me before I even looked at the community.
Then when I looked at the community, I discovered it wasn’t accidental. The whole point of the community is to appeal to folks looking for people that look like underage teenagers.
Believe it or not, I agree. It’s one of the reasons why I moderate less aggressively on lemmy than I do on the rest of the fediverse. I block/ban users here, for things I would defederate instances over on our main instance.
But images that look like CSAM are something else again. I’m not going to give leeway to spaces like that. I don’t want to be anywhere near NSFW content that can be mistaken for CSAM. I don’t want to moderate around it, I don’t want to navigate the legalities, and I don’t want to be connected to a community that attracts folk looking for porn like that.
The community in question used “child-like” in their sidebar to describe their acceptable content, and the first post I saw in a report looked like CSAM.
That, and other random photos of people who looked like they were 15 or 16.
To me, that’s pretty damning, even if they are all 18+.
Also, it’s kind of surprising for me that the report went to blåhaj admins and not lemmynsfw ones, but I guess that’s ok.
On lemmy, a report goes to the admins of the instance that the reporter is on. The admins of the instance the reported account is on, the admins of the instance the community is on and the mods of the community
I looked at something that looked like CSAM. I looked at the community, and saw more content that was sitting right on the border of CSAM. The sidebar told me childlike content was allowable.
There was no misunderstanding. My exposure to the content in that community was content that appeared to my eyes to be CSAM.
Telling me that if I looked hard enough I would see that they’re all adults, or that “childlike” was only there because of a copy and paste doesn’t fundamentally alter that. I don’t care that they’re all adults. I care that many of them are framed to look like they’re not.
This is not a misunderstanding. This isn’t ignorance. This isn’t confusion.
This is a difference in expectations and understanding of acceptable content.
Of course I’m biased. I haven’t tried to hide that. I’m not approaching this from a dispassionate, disconnected perspective and have no desire to pretend I am. I had a strong emotional response to something that looked like CSAM. I saw more content that looked like CSAM. I saw a sidebar that actively encourages childlike content. I got told by the admins of the community that it was fine with them.
So I defederated, and it doesn’t impact you at all, as you’re not on either instance.
And I would do so again. And your snarky replies aren’t going to change that.
lemmynsfw.com has been defederated
Edit - This is a post to the meta group of Blåhaj Lemmy. It is not intended for the entire lemmyverse. If you are not on Blåhaj Lemmy and plan on dropping in to offer your opinion on how we are doing things in a way you don’t agree with, your post will be removed....