Bluesky struggles to moderate child abuse material in Portuguese

37 pointsposted 14 hours ago
by donohoe
(nucleo.jor.br)

8 Comments

pfraze

10 hours ago

This was from a couple weeks back. We’ve been working hard to clean it up. It’s a constant fight, but we take it seriously.

The CP rings showed up at much higher levels than before with the Brazil bump. We run every image through Thorn’s fingerprinting service. That helps us with attempts to upload the media, but then they advertise telegrams and you have to root them out.

Uehreka

10 hours ago

Glad to hear you’re taking this stuff seriously, but you may want to be careful talking about this in detail in public without consulting a lawyer. Even if it seems like nothing is wrong with what you’re saying, anything that could be used to imply that you aren’t (or previously weren’t) in compliance with certain moderation standards could be used against BlueSky in court.

KomoD

9 hours ago

Their response wasn't great in my opinion, they dodged some of the questions like:

> Why doesn’t Bluesky block known keywords and terms like “child pornography” or “cp”?

> Does Bluesky have different strategies for dealing with text posts discussing child sexual abuse or grooming and images of child exploitation?

viraptor

8 hours ago

> Why doesn’t Bluesky block known keywords and terms like “child pornography” or “cp”?

That's 90s tech and useless today. Not only are long-term accounts never going to post it verbatim (if they want to survive on the platform), it will block both normal communication about the issue and unrelated things (lots of cp in shell scripts). There are way better approaches to detection available.

When anyone tries that anyway, we get the expected results. Like "the event that can't be mentioned" and "unalive" on YouTube.

KomoD

7 hours ago

See, this would have been a good response from them, instead of just not answering the question.

ErikBjare

2 hours ago

I felt it was obvious and didn't need to be said.

mu53

6 hours ago

Its a cat and mouse game. Generally, these large companies use information asymmetry as a tool in the war

naming_the_user

an hour ago

The first one seems obvious to me, that's like blocking the terms "murder", "rape", "piracy", "theft" ... etc. Normal discussion involves using those terms.