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Classic "this is why we can't have nice things" moment
Sometimes I wonder, considering how high the volume of the abuse, how much of the "abuse" is copyright holders purposefully flooding such services with shit like CP to force a shutdown.
Like, either there's fucking millions upon millions of pedos out there, or they have the financial backing of a giant corporation and/or government.
That strikes me as really out there. I think the reality is that there's a lot of people into CP sadly – as an absolute but not relative number – and you don't need many out there to have a prolific amount of content, which we know from our own special interest cases.
This is what always unnerves me about privacy tech. I always feel the pull of using high level encryption with whatever I'm doing – file storage, communication, etc – but a part of me is always saddened at the same time with how much abuse is effectively facilitated by anonymity and privacy.
But as the horrors of the dark web have shown, it's a battle that law enforcement will never win – our most effective weapon as a society against CP and related abuse is ~~Chris Hansen~~ (I shouldn't joke) ...is engaging with and changing the material causes of this phenomenon. There will always be tools for sickos; the challenge is to prevent people from becoming as sick as they are, and when sick, finding ways to prevent them from abusing others.
Sorry for slightly OT rant lol.
Probably, it's a really obvious and effective way to attack a website. I hear any small imageboard that tries to start up has this problem too. Any shady organization with no ethics can basically use this to shut down anything that allows user content and doesn't have huge moderation resources.
Sadly even if 0.1 percent of the world population is a disgusting pedo that's still 9 million people, even more unfortunate is that the actual percentage is somewhere in the 1-3 percent range.
Tragedy of the Commons.