Yet another Hacker News

Child Sexual Abuse Material Persists on X

27 points mplanchard 2 hours ago 22 comments

mplanchard 2 hours ago | parent

The newsworthy thing here, IMO, is that they don’t even seem to be checking images against the NCMEC database

> The U.S. national center shares digital fingerprints with major technology companies so they can scan and remove the imagery. The center’s list is used by Google and Meta, among others. About a third of the images found by The Times were from that list.

mitxela 1 hour ago | parent

NCMEC won't share that database with almost anyone. I wouldn't be surprised if they denied it to Elon.

londons_explore 1 hour ago | parent

It also has a fairly high false positive rate, and due to the nature of the content paying someone to verify false positives is near impossible both legally and morally.

rationalist 1 hour ago | parent

I'm surprised Twitter didn't implement it earlier (before it was bought and rebranded to X).

Also, is The Times admitting they were in possession of the illegal pictures? Does Freedom of the Press protect against that?

iAMkenough 5 minutes ago | parent

I think they’re saying Elon is in possession of it, and they were able to verify it via file hashing compared against the national database.

Are you suggesting the national database maintainers are in possession of illegal pictures and should also have their rights questioned?

mikeyouse 35 minutes ago | parent

They were using it in 2024..

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2024-01-31_-_...

PeterStuer 1 hour ago | parent

I thought all maps moved to bluesky?

rationalist 58 minutes ago | parent

It took me a bit to realize you mean "MAPs" (so-called "Minor Attracted Persons") and not cartographical instruments.

r_lee 41 minutes ago | parent

I don't think that "label" even applies if they're posting such content

hightrix 26 minutes ago | parent

It shouldn't be a label at all. Pedofiles should be called as such, or worse.

iAMkenough 2 minutes ago | parent

Americans give them the label “Commander in Chief”

cyanydeez 57 minutes ago | parent

Surely, X should be shut down by some act of god.

bigyabai 28 minutes ago | parent

For the government to subsequently reopen it?

There has never been a more blatant honeypot in the history of American social media.

2OEH8eoCRo0 50 minutes ago | parent

Twitter/X should be held liable.

bigyabai 10 minutes ago | parent

*taps the sign*

  Repealing Section 230 When You Disagree With It Creates An Even Bigger Incentive For Abuse

2OEH8eoCRo0 2 minutes ago | parent

I think that it should be repealed.

mulemisterX 47 minutes ago | parent

The only conclusion I can come to at this point is that it's a honeypot.

kelseyfrog 44 minutes ago | parent

POSIWID.

NDlurker 46 minutes ago | parent

Off topic, but gore should be treated the same way legally

NDlurker 35 minutes ago | parent

I get downvoted whenever I bring this up but nobody has a good argument on why it should remain legal.

OroPla 6 minutes ago | parent

Can someone explain why the goal is only to remove the images and not go after whoever posted them? You'd think the pool of posters would eventually shrink to zero.