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sentientmachin3 ◴[] No.40716108[source]
Problem is most of the people don't care because they "have nothing to hide". Moreover, do they really think this is going to solve the issue of child pornography?
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1. peoplefromibiza ◴[] No.40716198[source]
the issue cannot be "solved" it's a false myth that the issues need to be "solved". Have we solved murder yet? And why in the US the murder rate is 10 folds the European one? Are US politicians lobbying for more homicides?

It's too easy to frame the issues in a context where I am right and the other part is wrong, because yes.

I used to run a service free as in speech and as in free beer to host little snippets of text to pass them around, I started it because I was tired of not being able to easily share some piece of information from my mobile phone to some other device.

It's astonishing the amount of spam and illegal material, from simple copyright infringement to porn - probably revenge porn or people sharing media of unaware victims-, that the service was getting used for in a very short amount of time.

I guess there are probably botnets scanning the entire internet for vulns or open services to abuse them.

I shut it down voluntarily, nobody reported me or said anything to me or forced me to do a thing, I simply did not want to be part of something like that and and had no time/resource to properly fight the spam.

This is the sad state of affairs and refusing to even discuss about it, to me means burying your head in the sand.