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Lemmyshitpost community closed until further notice (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Hello everyone,

We unfortunately have to close the !lemmyshitpost community for the time being. We have been fighting the CSAM (Child Sexual Assault Material) posts all day but there is nothing we can do because they will just post from another instance since we changed our registration policy.

We keep working on a solution, we have a few things in the works but that won't help us now.

Thank you for your understanding and apologies to our users, moderators and admins of other instances who had to deal with this.

Edit: @Striker@lemmy.world the moderator of the affected community made a post apologizing for what happened. But this could not be stopped even with 10 moderators. And if it wasn't his community it would have been another one. And it is clear this could happen on any instance.

But we will not give up. We are lucky to have a very dedicated team and we can hopefully make an announcement about what's next very soon.

Edit 2: removed that bit about the moderator tools. That came out a bit harsher than how we meant it. It's been a long day and having to deal with this kind of stuff got some of us a bit salty to say the least. Remember we also had to deal with people posting scat not too long ago so this isn't the first time we felt helpless. Anyway, I hope we can announce something more positive soon.

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[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 471 points 1 year ago

Fuck these trolls

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 299 points 1 year ago

troll is too mild of an adjective for these people

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 291 points 1 year ago

How about "pedophile"? I mean, they had to have the images to post them.

[-] jarfil@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago

"Terrorist". Having the images doesn't mean they liked them, they used them to terrorize a whole community though.

[-] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Petophilile enabled Terrorist" or "petophilic terrorist" depending on the person

It still means they can tolerate CSAM or are normalized to it enough that they can feel anything other than discust during "shipping and handling".

[-] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

All of your comments have "banned" next to them for me (logged in via lemmy.world using Liftoff) - any idea why?

I assume you're not actually banned...?

[-] Whitehat93875@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

They were banned because they were defending pedophilia (advocating for them to be able to get off to what turns them on) and also trolling very aggressively. You can look at them in the Modlog on the Website, not sure if Apps implement the modlog yet though.

[-] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ah thanks, I've seen it a few times but thought it was a bug. Why are people like this!

[-] Whitehat93875@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I have not clue, people can be quite toxic and horrible. Also noticed that they reduced his ban, not sure why, defending pedophilia is pretty bad and definitely carries legal risk but it's not my call to make.

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[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this isn’t just joking or shitposting. This is the kind of shit that gets people locked up in federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison for decades. The feds don’t care if you sought out the CSAM, because it still exists on your device regardless of intent.

The laws about possessing CSAM are written in a way that any plausible deniability is removed, specifically to prevent pedophiles from being able to go “oh lol a buddy sent that to me as a joke” and getting acquitted. The courts don’t care why you have CSAM on your server. All they care about is the fact that you do. And since you own the server, you own the CSAM and they’ll prosecute you for it.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a digital form of SWATing.

[-] gammasfor@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

And not just the instance admins would be at risk as well. Any time you view an image your device is making a local copy of it. Meaning every person who viewed the image even accidentally is at risk as well.

[-] pensivepangolin@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah honestly report all of those accounts to law enforcement. It’s unlikely they’d be able to do much, I assume, but these people are literally distributing CSAM.

[-] Whitehat93875@lemmy.world 134 points 1 year ago

That's not a troll, CSAM goes well beyond trolling, pedophile would be a more accurate term for them.

[-] CoderKat@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah. A troll might post something like a ton of oversized images of pig buttholes. Who the fuck even has access to CSAM to post? That's something you only have on hand if you're a predator already. Nor is it something you can shrug off like "lol I was only trolling". It's a crime that will send you to jail for years. It's a major crime that gets entire police units dedicated to it. It's a huuuuge deal and I cannot even fathom what kind of person would risk years in prison to sabotage an internet forum.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

My thoughts exactly, like if they were just spamming goatsee or something, that would be one thing....

But this raises several questions, and they can only have grimdark answers.

[-] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dont forget they are doing this to harm others, they deserve the name "e-terrorist" or simmlar. hey are still absolutely pedophiles. Their bombing out a space, not trying to set up shop.