I really like the new language of calling it child abuse imagery. It’s not porn, it’s abuse. We as technologists need to do a better job of building the moderat

I really like the new language of calling it child abuse imagery. It’s not porn, it’s abuse. We as technologists need to do a better job of building the moderation tools that help platforms act on abuse reports. At YouTube a staggering quantity of abusive videos were uploaded. The content moderation team had mandatory therapy, were provided with powerful tooling to glance at thumbnails without watching full videos and still people burnt out so fast 3 month contacts were the norm. There was a dedicated FBI liaison who’s job it was to collect evidence and report it. (Funny note, it was technically illegal for him to possess the evidence while collecting it to report it. This became interesting due to mandatory record retention during an unrelated case.) Better tooling allows platforms to quickly pull and report abusive content. We should all take this need quite seriously. I’d love to see some open source tooling around content moderation geared at stamping out abuse.