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Fuck these trolls
Trolls? In most regions of the planet, I am fairly certain their actions would be considered criminal.
Criminals.
That's not a troll, CSAM goes well beyond trolling, pedophile would be a more accurate term for them.
Yeah. A troll might post something like a ton of oversized images of pig buttholes. Who the fuck even has access to CSAM to post? That's something you only have on hand if you're a predator already. Nor is it something you can shrug off like "lol I was only trolling". It's a crime that will send you to jail for years. It's a major crime that gets entire police units dedicated to it. It's a huuuuge deal and I cannot even fathom what kind of person would risk years in prison to sabotage an internet forum.
troll is too mild of an adjective for these people
Yeah honestly report all of those accounts to law enforcement. It’s unlikely they’d be able to do much, I assume, but these people are literally distributing CSAM.
Yeah, this isn’t just joking or shitposting. This is the kind of shit that gets people locked up in federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison for decades. The feds don’t care if you sought out the CSAM, because it still exists on your device regardless of intent.
The laws about possessing CSAM are written in a way that any plausible deniability is removed, specifically to prevent pedophiles from being able to go “oh lol a buddy sent that to me as a joke” and getting acquitted. The courts don’t care why you have CSAM on your server. All they care about is the fact that you do. And since you own the server, you own the CSAM and they’ll prosecute you for it.
Sounds like a digital form of SWATing.
And not just the instance admins would be at risk as well. Any time you view an image your device is making a local copy of it. Meaning every person who viewed the image even accidentally is at risk as well.
How about "pedophile"? I mean, they had to have the images to post them.
"Terrorist". Having the images doesn't mean they liked them, they used them to terrorize a whole community though.