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0 pointsdrasticmeasures7y ago0 comments

Ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away for the victims.

The women whose boyfriends posted private sex pictures as revenge, or the minorities who will be the victims of hate groups organizing on social media, the children who were filmed while being raped and have their video circulating online, the victims of bullying whose bullies are empowered by other people seeing it and not doing anything to stop them...

You can choose to ignore this when you see it, but the victims can't, and it's for their freedom that I'm concerned for.

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zzzcpan7y ago

But you are advocating exactly that - ignoring the problem by blocking content instead of dealing with people engaging in those behaviors.

Faark7y ago

Yeah, its kind of ridiculous having e.g. the german government expect Facebook what posts are and then delete hate speech and co. If that stuff is illegal, then the persons doing so should be held accountable by our legal system. But politicians love using those companies as easy scape goat. Anyway, p2p solutions usually try to make finding a person to hold accountable harder than current centralized services.

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