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Re:Discontinuing Support for NSFW Imgur r/subsections Associ... by reilly3000 on Friday October 18, 2019 @04:04PM (#21294641)
How can image services avoid hosting child pornography? If a user submits an image of themselves at age 17 and lies about their age, can the host be held liable for distributing illegal content? That seems like an existential business risk for any site that hosts nsfw. There’s no viable way to check a user’s actual age (when depicted) under current business models. And what is and isn’t nsfw?

It all sounds complicated.

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Re:Discontinuing Support for NSFW Imgur r/subsections Associ... by ryanlol on Friday October 18, 2019 @04:08PM (#21294683)
It only seems that complicated because you’re applying weird HN pedantry on fairly reasonable laws. This isn’t an existential business risk unless you’re straight up ignoring CAM you’ve been made aware of.

This is a constant source of work for these providers, but complicated this is not.

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Re:Discontinuing Support for NSFW Imgur r/subsections Associ... by reilly3000 on Friday October 18, 2019 @04:26PM (#21294813)
Not trying to be pedantic; it just seemed like an interesting problem. I’ll take your word for it that it isn’t interesting:)

I don’t know how they make money. Ad rates aren’t that great and bandwidth isn’t that cheap.

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