How does Lemmy combat illegal activities and content?

Even if it’s just a recommendation on a different group in which to ask the question, I’m curious how Lemmy combats criminal activity and content like human trafficking, smuggling, terrorism, etc?

Is it just a matter of each node bans users when they identify a crime, and/or problematic nodes are defederated if they tolerate it?

And if defederated, does that mean each node has to individually choose to defederate from the one allowing criminal activity?

fubo, (edited )

There are services that help instance admins to coordinate with one another on blocking instances that allow e.g. CSAM or hate content.

See e.g. gui.fediseer.com

(FAQ is here: fediseer.com/faq/eng)

rivermonster,

Thank you for this. It helps me with further inquiry—I wasn’t sure what to search. Again, thank you!

XEAL,

lemm.ee resorted to disabling image uploading altogether

sunaurus,
@sunaurus@lemm.ee avatar

Nowadays it’s allowed only for users with >4 week old accounts. It’s not perfect, but having this barrier to entry will hopefully prevent at least some problems.

Mojave,

Why should Lemmy do that

rivermonster,

For a free throw example, because it shouldn’t become a go-to for child pornography.

LibertyLizard, (edited )

Well, at minimum, instance operators could find themselves in legal jeopardy if they do not, depending on their local laws.

Many people would also make a moral argument for the enforcement of certain laws, but I infer from your comment that you don’t agree with such ideas.

Mojave,

Laws are often not moral

ani,

wdym

Kaboom,

For example, gun control often takes the form of “making it unreasonably hard for poor people to arm themselves”

Atin,

Most policies make things unreasonably hard for poor people to do anything.

LibertyLizard, (edited )

Regardless of you feel about them, website operators must abide by them in most jurisdictions. And therefore it would be naive for Lemmy’s developers to not at least consider this issue.

Bitrot,
@Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

It is up to the home instance of the user, and problematic nodes are defederated.

Instances can choose to operate either blacklist or whitelist mode. Most are on blacklist mode, where new instances federate automatically.

rivermonster,

It seems like a potential scalability issue, and a lot of work. Props to the administrators who deal with this right now.

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