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What happens when someone uploads child porn?
by bufferoverflow 8y ago
What happens when someone uploads child porn?
- otini 8y agoThe uploader will be banned and their content removed, and hopefully will have to deal with the police. If a PeerTube instance is too laxist about its moderation policy, other instances will stop federating (federation is opt-in and decided by the admins).
- bufferoverflow 8y agoSo how can they call it "censorship resistant" if you can just ban users and delete their content?
- fulafel 8y agoCheck out the "Who is responsible for content published on PeerTube? " bit in the faq at https://joinpeertube.org/en/faq/ https://joinpeertube.org/en/faq/
- s73v3r_ 8y agoBanning and choosing not to point at something are two different things.
- nodja 8y agoThe platform is censorship resistant. Individual instances are not. If you upload something to a specific instance, you are at the mercy of the instance owner. But you can upload to other more "open-minded" instances or host your own. Moderation is necessary, otherwise you'll attract "undesirables" that will most likely scare away regular users.
- Sir_Cmpwn 8y agoThe person responsible for that PeerTube instance would have to remove it, and hopefully ban the user and report them to the authorities.
- mikec3010 8y agoor copyrighted material. this could open up peers to civil infringement suits from the MAFIAA which could have a chilling effect on new participants.
- zaarn 8y agoIf the country the instance is hosted in has illegalized child porn (japan for example allows some forms of child porn and it's normal to consume those), then the instance will likely take it down fairly quickly. If they don't they might be unfederated by other instances that definitely don't want this. It's censorship resistant because each instance is an island and yet every island is connected. As long as someone is willing to host your content, people on the fediverse can consume it one way or another.