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1. miki12+Hv[view] [source] 2024-10-01 22:16:55
>>lopesp+(OP)
You're always building a castle in someone else's kingdom.

If you're publishing on your own website instead of a social media platform, your new Kings are your domain registrar, registry operator and ultimately ICAN itself, your hosting provider, Let's Encrypt, all the email providers you need to be able to deliver to (notably Microsoft and Google), and probably also your payments provider.

Despite what people say, the internet is not decentralized, and it's no longer possible to build a site that isn't in anybody else's kingdom.

This is mostly a good thing, if this wasn't true, somebody would have set up a site that was a safe haven for child porn, and there'd be nothing that anybody could ever do about it.

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2. roenxi+1Q[view] [source] 2024-10-02 00:51:33
>>miki12+Hv
> This is mostly a good thing, if this wasn't true, somebody would have set up a site that was a safe haven for child porn, and there'd be nothing that anybody could ever do about it.

I doubt it is true, and I'd assume people have set up a site. If the media industry failed to exterminate torrenting with enormous economic incentives to do so why would the crusade against child abuse achieve more success? It isn't technically possible to stop people communicating with each other over the internet.

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3. throwa+qv1[view] [source] 2024-10-02 09:19:31
>>roenxi+1Q
It's already happened. The Trump shooters brother was arrested for CSAM only because it was discovered during the investigation of his brother.
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4. Thunde+bA1[view] [source] 2024-10-02 10:14:47
>>throwa+qv1
Well, for all the "safety" of the kingdoms there, it didn't stop it.

So the kingdoms have not prevented it, and many probably have facilitated it, and maybe not always unintentional (as in, someone from inside the company was "in on it").

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5. throwa+nA1[view] [source] 2024-10-02 10:17:03
>>Thunde+bA1
The FBI also temporarily ran a CSAM site which raises ethical and legal questions.
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