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And GitHub has added a new "Report Repository" link on every repo now, and it gave me the creeps that there's a very easy way to report CSAM through it. It's li
by 1827163 3y ago
And GitHub has added a new "Report Repository" link on every repo now, and it gave me the creeps that there's a very easy way to report CSAM through it. It's listed right there out of the several types of prohibited content. So 4chan, trolls, etc. could quite easily mass report someone's repository. And it frightens me just to contemplate what might happen to someone if they got 100 or 1000 false reports on their repository. So everyone is at risk from being labelled as the modern day version of a witch or heretic, just at the push of a button.
My God, what has the world come to nowadays. All done in the name of protecting us from a so-called widespread threat to our safety. Straight out of a fascist's playbook there. History repeating itself again?
- qingcharles 3y agoI could easily see some web sites just forwarding complaints of this nature to one of the national CSAM organizations (that are privately held and therefore unregulated and not open) who then add you to their database for future reference, even if the allegation is totally unfounded.
- 1827163 3y agoThere might be a mandatory reporting requirement, so even if it's unfounded, it still ends up on a NCMEC database. Or that law enforcement is still notified, even if no arrest happens. Anyway it's all completely overwhelming to comprehend, emotionally. Time to take a break, to pull the network cable out of the back of my computer, and be back to normal, instead of living in Orwell's 1984 world, come true. Thankfully there's so much more to life than the Internet.