Motherless has been banned for years one reddit and even 4chan because of their lack of moderation of CSAM.

I was reminded of this fact when a user brought it up in a comment thread. We are now promptly taking action to ban it here.

We recommend you use redgifs, catbox, or upload directly to the instance for media posts.

    • lemmyposter212@lemmynsfw.comOPMEnglish
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      12 days ago
      1. 4chan and reddit would not ban the site on baseless allegations
      2. It’s explicitly listed in the Office of Justice’s docs about sites known to be used to distribute csam.

      It’s the only “smaller site” that is outright listed. From what I understand it was a much bigger issue on the site in the early internet days but I’m not taking any chances.

      They are also notorious for hosting revenge porn, which we also do not allow.

      • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
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        12 days ago

        4chan and reddit would not ban the site on baseless allegations

        Reddit is well known for unreasonable bans of users & communities. Their CEO itself was once moderator of /r/jailbait. Reddit as well as 4chan are generally known for such content too.

        It’s explicitly listed in the Office of Justice’s docs about sites known to be used to distribute csam.

        https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/301590.pdf

        So according to your source:

        Social networking sites, such as Facebook [287, 307], Twitter [308, 309, 310], Facebook’s Instagram, Google’s YouTube, Reddit, and lesser known social sites (e.g., Motherless.com) that are too numerous to list.

        I assume this means you also ban Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Reddit links? Or are only “smaller sites” ban worthy?

        • lemmyposter212@lemmynsfw.comOPMEnglish
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          12 days ago

          This is a photo hosting site, that you don’t even need to stop using yourself. If you’d like to view motherless, you can. Hell, if you find something that’s not CP you could upload it on another site if you really wanted.

          This is such a weird hill to die on. You’re defending a site known to have CP, that’s very weird.

          Reddit and 4chan banned motherless years ago. Like before one of the cofounders sadly offed himself. Your argument is reddit and 4chan hosted questionable material and they banned the site. Wouldn’t that mean, by your logic, that we would also want to ban it because if we’re supposed to be better than them, then we would want to ban something they deemed as worse than them.

          Also, if there was a direct link to someone’s social media with personal identifying information that was not consensual it would get removed. So yes Facebook and places are not 100% in the clear either. Even so motherless is unique because it’s still very unmoderated in comparison to the others.

          None of this is going to change my stance on this. This doesn’t effect the functionality of the site, this doesn’t make it harder to post, and it’s inherently a less safe site than many others. We have to make sure our site is not taken down.