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.

  • Whitehat Hacker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    142·
    1 year ago

    Do you know why we have possession laws against CSAM in the first place? It’s because people buy and sell abuse material in underground markets, it’s another way they profit off the abuse of children. This is nothing like drug possession laws (which are stupid) because the product is literally a direct product of the abuse of children that many of the people in possession likely helped the criminals in order to obtain it (either directly or by paying them for it).

    So yes in this case it does make sense to criminally charge people for possession of something like this considering the direct connection CSAM has to child trafficking and child sexual abuse and when you defend it by going against possession laws it makes it seem like you support these criminals.

    • jarfil@lemmy.world
      19·
      1 year ago

      Newsflash: drugs are not digital, can’t get drugs in your cache by scrolling through Lemmy.

      drug possession laws (which are stupid)

      Defending drug smuggling? FBI CHECK THAT GUY’S CAR, HOUSE, AND DO A CAVITY SEARCH

      Drugs kill people; they kill users, are produced, processed, and smuggled by abusing vulnerable people, every year mules die because of an involuntary overdose when the packets they swallow burst open, then get butchered live to get the drugs out instead of going to a hospital. Drugs get used to chemically subdue victims, gang rape them, record it, post the videos… even produce CSAM!

      • GodzillaFanboy129@lemmy.world
        9·
        1 year ago

        Oh boy do we have a very hot take here don’t we, lmao this guy just tried to compare someone smoking a joint, doing shrooms, or even cocaine to the act of sexually abusing a child and trying to sell the pictures.

        Don’t even bother engaging with this guy, he’s clearly a troll mindlessly parroting other people’s arguments, report, block, move on.