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You're not more "in the bin" as with some fellow knife users who stick them into humans - or a better parallel, recent community favourite Mastodon, which, acco

You're not more "in the bin" as with some fellow knife users who stick them into humans - or a better parallel, recent community favourite Mastodon, which, according to it's federated nature, has also a massive CSAM problem(1). In the digital world, either you have complete freedom (also meaning choose your own server/fellow bin companions) or complete censorship - not much in between. https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23806093/mastodon-csam-study-decentralized-network https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23806093/mastodon-csam-st...

JadeNB 3y ago
> You're not more "in the bin" as with some fellow knife users who stick them into humans Except that the law has come to terms (outside the UK) with the possibility of peaceful knife ownership, whereas the law around Tor and such things is still in the "probably non-technically savvy judge has heard scary terms around Tor and wants to be on the safe side" stage.
- int_19h 3y ago
  There are many places outside of UK that don't allow to carry knives with certain features (e.g. fixed blade or assisted opening) or with blade length above a certain limit. In US, this is often covered by municipal bylaws.
sitzkrieg 3y ago
the csam problem is a fediverse problem. not just a mastondon problem, let me just say i am one of the most vocal critics of mastodon after running an instance for 5 years and running. but its unfair to call it a mastodon problem, mastodon is just a fediverse client. the csam can come from any fediverse peer. but it is indeed a problem, and mastodon mirrors all remote content that is in your federation network and now you have csam splattered across the connections of mastos w only blacklists if entire instances to recourse. its a bad approach but they've buried head in the sand years ago. things like pleroma do not do this by default
anthk 3y ago
False. Mastodon blocks those CSAM instances (speccially the Japanese ones) in masse. It's the opposite of you say. Twitter and FB have a harder problem on that because they are single-net based.
- mhitza 3y ago
  What do you mean by "specifically the Japanse ones"? Is CSAM more prevalent there or is something along the lines of having more loli content posted there which fals under child pornography laws in certain countries?
  - anthk 3y ago
    Pavoo. It didn't have art related CSAM, which in the end there are just drawings, but real people CSAM. Not porn, just top nudes which in Japan they have an ambiguous stance. Thus, blocking pavoo.net on every Mastodon instance was almost mandatory to keep your sanity in good levels. On Japan and nudity, I know some of it it's being used not as sexualization, but as a hard prank (Takeshi's Castle, hidden camera pranks on toilets with falling walls, nudity jokes at Doraemon/Crayon Shin Chan, Dragon Ball and Bulma...), but for sure in this case didn't have an intention to ridicule anyone. Akibahara had a mall where on a single flat there were magazines were displaying illegal nudity as if they were used as a sports magazine or something like that. Creepy stuff. It seems the Japanese people are sexually represend in their teens so they can hyperfocus at school over anything else but then this creates "sexually disabled" adults with lots of troubles on relationships and a hard lack of teenage discoveries.

JadeNB 3y ago

> You're not more "in the bin" as with some fellow knife users who stick them into humans Except that the law has come to terms (outside the UK) with the possibility of peaceful knife ownership, whereas the law around Tor and such things is still in the "probably non-technically savvy judge has heard scary terms around Tor and wants to be on the safe side" stage.

int_19h 3y ago
There are many places outside of UK that don't allow to carry knives with certain features (e.g. fixed blade or assisted opening) or with blade length above a certain limit. In US, this is often covered by municipal bylaws.

sitzkrieg 3y ago

the csam problem is a fediverse problem. not just a mastondon problem, let me just say i am one of the most vocal critics of mastodon after running an instance for 5 years and running. but its unfair to call it a mastodon problem, mastodon is just a fediverse client. the csam can come from any fediverse peer. but it is indeed a problem, and mastodon mirrors all remote content that is in your federation network and now you have csam splattered across the connections of mastos w only blacklists if entire instances to recourse. its a bad approach but they've buried head in the sand years ago. things like pleroma do not do this by default

anthk 3y ago

False. Mastodon blocks those CSAM instances (speccially the Japanese ones) in masse. It's the opposite of you say. Twitter and FB have a harder problem on that because they are single-net based.

mhitza 3y ago
What do you mean by "specifically the Japanse ones"? Is CSAM more prevalent there or is something along the lines of having more loli content posted there which fals under child pornography laws in certain countries?
- anthk 3y ago
  Pavoo. It didn't have art related CSAM, which in the end there are just drawings, but real people CSAM. Not porn, just top nudes which in Japan they have an ambiguous stance. Thus, blocking pavoo.net on every Mastodon instance was almost mandatory to keep your sanity in good levels. On Japan and nudity, I know some of it it's being used not as sexualization, but as a hard prank (Takeshi's Castle, hidden camera pranks on toilets with falling walls, nudity jokes at Doraemon/Crayon Shin Chan, Dragon Ball and Bulma...), but for sure in this case didn't have an intention to ridicule anyone. Akibahara had a mall where on a single flat there were magazines were displaying illegal nudity as if they were used as a sports magazine or something like that. Creepy stuff. It seems the Japanese people are sexually represend in their teens so they can hyperfocus at school over anything else but then this creates "sexually disabled" adults with lots of troubles on relationships and a hard lack of teenage discoveries.