Child Porn is a huge image problem that can only be solved by governments in the relevant jurisdictions. Search makes this image problem drastically worse. Lot

Child Porn is a huge image problem that can only be solved by governments in the relevant jurisdictions. Search makes this image problem drastically worse. Lots of discussion about what privacy means no discussion about the elephant in the room. Networks that make acceptable use a choose your own adventure for instance by allowing people to self host and set policy on their own server end up with some people using it for things that the rest of planet earth doesn't find acceptable. For instance I'm certain that common web frameworks and servers are used to promote things both odious and illegal but because that machinery is invisible to most users the blame accrues entirely to the criminal. With Mastodon the branding makes it possible for the blame to accrue to Mastodon as opposed merely the criminal because people are more apt to understand Mastodon as an open source twitter as opposed to a tool like Apache. Whereas this problem accrues to Mastodon the tool is in no position to dictate how users use the tool the relevant governments are and if prosecution becomes common hiding illegal porn from prying eyes will be done by the users themselves. If Mastodon suggests not federating with servers in countries that don't handle this issue eg Japan then search will tend to show off less negative content and indeed countries can be shamed into handling such issues better.