fnord888:

etirabys:

dumb question about how hard content moderation is at scale: who the fuck is uploading the child porn and beheading videos traumatizing the underpaid moderation teams in all of these exposés? If I were in possession of those things I would simply keep it to myself out of self preservation. Why and how are a small fraction of people doing it in such volume that it creates a huge problem for moderation teams? And don’t say “some people are insane”, that’s a curiosity-stopper

Sometimes shock value, as people have said, but sometimes I do think there’s a genuine desire to share the content with like-minded people (or, more selfishly, trade content with like-minded people).

While it’s not not dangerous, I don’t think it’s necessarily as dangerous as you’re assuming. The tools required for ban evasion probably provide protection against low effort law enforcement responses, and more sophisticated responses are limited by resources. Plus, the content may not even be illegal: actual CSA content is illegal almost everywhere, but simulated material and gore/shock stuff is often legal.

There are now so many internet leads on child sexual abuse that police have to triage them to pursue by estimated age; I’m told the cutoff tends to range from 2 up to 8.