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@xianc78 @Soy_Magnus Doing anything for anons is one of the worst possible moves. They build you up, and the moment you do something that might upset them, they make a sport of making you fall, all while demanding you keep working for them. Oh, and they're all either broke or ridiculously stingy with their money. Insanely toxic group to cater to.
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@xianc78 @caekislove I don't think internet beefing was this bad back then either, if you wanted internet beefs you had to literally go out of your way for it or be crazy enough on say USENET.

By that I mean someone like Derek Smart probably isn't even shocking to the web anymore because there are thousands of people like him at least using Google Alerts on their own name to find people talking shit online.

@Soy_Magnus I still code and still enjoy it. I just feel like being an admin for a site for dissidents is just the wrong path to take.

@mrsaturday It's not just him. People like m00t and Lowtax went down similar paths. The latter even ended up killing himself.

@caekislove @PurpCat You could have a club that bans recording or even all electronic devices with cameras, but I don't know how well that would go.

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That's pretty much what killed dance clubs. Being the dork dancing in a corner was bad enough without some bored instagram thot recording you and making fun of you with her 2 million followers

@PurpCat @caekislove Yeah that too, especially given that the BBSes were limited to local area codes so such information wasn't easily searched and copied around.

@PurpCat @caekislove I envy those who grew up during that time. Must be nice to be able to do this without fear of being doxed or having your life ruined later.

@PurpCat @caekislove At this point, I think it would be better for these anonymous communities to just be textboards. It dodges the CP problem (minus the links) and (at least for now) also dodges the age-verification problem.

@icedquinn @caekislove @sun Yeah, literally every altchan that is still around either has no /pol/ equivalent or it's /pol/ is dead enough not to be on anyone's radar.

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Exactly. The main barrier to creating a free speech message board isn't technical, it's political. Anything not run by a VC-backed corporation out of California is assumed to be a child porn exchange by default and will be treated as such by authorities.

@cjd @caekislove I still think it's a bad idea because regardless of how it is hashed or subhashed, collisions are inevitable and at least one person has been falsely accused of possessing CP because he had a file that was in collision with one of the hashes.

eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/goog

@caekislove Hashing seems like a terrible way to detect CP because all one needs to do in order to bypass it is to change one pixel value in a way that it isn't noticeable and then the resulting image would have a completely different hash.

@collappsar He did regret it, but even afterward he said that couples with a known genetic defect should at least screen any expected child.

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Serious question: Are we right now at peak technological freedom?
A lot of trends I see are pretty grim, but there is also a lot of seriously interesting work going on.
Maybe I'm oversimplifying, but I'm interested in the full range of perspectives. #AskFedi

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I know, at one point, Alex Gleason tried to get access to the list of CP hashes to facilitate auto-deletion of such content but the corporations who "owned" those hashes wanted tens of thousands of dollars for them. Why that isn't considered "profiting off child porn" by the law, I have no idea.
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It sucks because while Google is allowed to be the largest host of kiddy porn and all the other illegal bits and bytes, they get a pass because shucks they try their hardest to delete it whenever it is found. Meanwhile, if a regular person owns a message board that allows uploads, they'll get their door kicked in at 3:00am because some bored guy in Tel Aviv uploaded CP to a board nobody looks at

@caekislove Google is literally a CIA creation. Of course they get a pass. Same with Facebook, which probably started off as a DARPA project known as LifeLog.

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