Yeah so, someone just straight up posted child porn on Lemmy Shitposts. Jesus christ this is getting out of hand.

Sick fucking bastards

  • VonReposti@feddit.dk
    13·
    1 year ago

    Fair warning in some jurisdictions it is illegal to be in possession of CSAM. In my country if you’re lucky the LEO responding to your call will say “delete that shit right and forget it ever existed. Otherwise I’d have to arrest you for possession of CSAM”

    There’s really no distinction here between reporting a discovery of CSAM and actually being in possession of it since you are already in possession of it in the eyes of the law when you discovered it.

    • exterstellar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Not saying you’re wrong and I’m not a lawyer either so I don’t know, but that sounds pretty stupid for multiple reasons.

      1. How would any website moderator even be able to moderate their site and report it to the authority if just by reporting it they’re confessing to doing something illegal. There would be nothing stopping people from posting it everywhere if there’s no legal mechanism for reporting it.
      2. “Possession” a.k.a ownership is a huge part of the law. You can’t just say that just because I’m aware of something existing, I’m in possession of it. By that logic I can go to any jewelry store, look at a diamond and it becomes mine.
      • VonReposti@feddit.dk
        1·
        1 year ago

        Thing is, it doesn’t get reported unless it’s the police doing their own investigation. The law is absurd on that point and needs to be changed so “possrsion” doesn’t mean “stumbled upon it by pure coincidence”

        So I entirely agree with you, it’s just hard to change such laws because who wants to be the politician who suggested to relax a CSAM law. It is a touchy subject here since child pornography technically was legal for a few years after pornography was legalised.

      • VonReposti@feddit.dk
        1·
        1 year ago

        Thing is, it doesn’t get reported unless it’s the police doing their own investigation. The law is absurd on that point and needs to be changed so “possrsion” doesn’t mean “stumbled upon it by pure coincidence”

        So I entirely agree with you, it’s just hard to change such laws because who wants to be the politician who suggested to relax a CSAM law. It is a touchy subject here since child pornography technically was legal for a few years after pornography was legalised.