[pak9rabid]

Not to mention the liability of hosting users' media, which would have needed costly moderation to ensure nothing too illegal made its way in.

[hellojesus]

How much protection do platforms have against user media submissions? If you implement a dcma/illegal report button tbat instantly takes the media down, maybe even logically, is that sufficient?

[Analemma_]

It might, but then you’ve created a whole new set of problems: if anyone can take down anyone else’s content with one click, they’ll do it against anybody they dislike just for the hell of it (this was the case on Tumblr for a brief period: the Report button almost automatically banned the user, until they immediately realized this was unworkable). So if you don’t want everyone to ban everyone, you need a moderation team anyway to handle false reports, and you’re right back where you started.

[NewJazz]

Nowadays just hosting text can get you in trouble if it is too pornographic in nature.

[0cf8612b2e1e]

It’s probably now a lot easier to detect porn and automatically reject it. Set the filter to lean towards rejection for edge cases. You will lose out on racy bikini pictures, but maybe that is an acceptable compromise.