Hello everyone,

We unfortunately have to close the !lemmyshitpost community for the time being. We have been fighting the CSAM (Child Sexual Assault Material) posts all day but there is nothing we can do because they will just post from another instance since we changed our registration policy.

We keep working on a solution, we have a few things in the works but that won’t help us now.

Thank you for your understanding and apologies to our users, moderators and admins of other instances who had to deal with this.

Edit: @[email protected] the moderator of the affected community made a post apologizing for what happened. But this could not be stopped even with 10 moderators. And if it wasn’t his community it would have been another one. And it is clear this could happen on any instance.

But we will not give up. We are lucky to have a very dedicated team and we can hopefully make an announcement about what’s next very soon.

Edit 2: removed that bit about the moderator tools. That came out a bit harsher than how we meant it. It’s been a long day and having to deal with this kind of stuff got some of us a bit salty to say the least. Remember we also had to deal with people posting scat not too long ago so this isn’t the first time we felt helpless. Anyway, I hope we can announce something more positive soon.

    • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      11 months ago

      Simply having it to post makes you culpable. It’s way beyond trolling.

        • Hello Hotel@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          Yes, its a virus, the FBI will target anyone who is a host. anyone Who has it on their drive, (edit: intent may be relivant, im no expert). The only way to stay safe is to rid yourself of it. Delete it.

          Lemmy mods, keep yourself safe

          please dont use an iphone to moderate, if your on linux (i think windows too) use bleachbit on your browser cache and do the “vaccuum” operation.

          On android

          • to clear cache or better written instructions here

            • go to where you see all your apps
            • find your client
            • tap and hold on its icon
            • tap “app info”
            • go to “storage”
            • tap “clear cache”
            • (if your parranoid “clear data” and loose you sign in, settings and other local data).

          • To manually vaccum, vant find better instructions

            • download an app called “termux”, it doesnt need any permissions for this task.
            • when you see a black screen with text, type clear and hit enter,
            • Then type or paste
          { echo writing big file of random;
cat /dev/urandom >file-gets-big;
rm file-gets-big -v; }
          • And hit enter

          Your phone and the program cat will complain About being out of storage, if rm gets run, it will be fixed again. If it still complains or termux crashes, uninstall and reinstall termux, the vaccum process is finished

          Some people know at a glance wether these steps are safe or not, others do not. never follow instructions you dont understand, verify that i havent led you do somthing dumb.

        • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          11 months ago

          Are you promoting the acceptance of pedophilia? Cuz that’s what it sounds like and maybe they should start looking at your account first.

            • Whitehat Hacker@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              Do you know why we have possession laws against CSAM in the first place? It’s because people buy and sell abuse material in underground markets, it’s another way they profit off the abuse of children. This is nothing like drug possession laws (which are stupid) because the product is literally a direct product of the abuse of children that many of the people in possession likely helped the criminals in order to obtain it (either directly or by paying them for it).

              So yes in this case it does make sense to criminally charge people for possession of something like this considering the direct connection CSAM has to child trafficking and child sexual abuse and when you defend it by going against possession laws it makes it seem like you support these criminals.

    • Whitehat Hacker@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      11 months ago

      A person who is attracted to children is an evil and disgusting person, someone being a pedophile isn’t just “liking something”, they are a monster.

      • else@lemdro.idEnglish
        42·
        11 months ago

        People spreading CSAM are beyond terrible, but I don’t agree with this generalization. Pedophiles don’t choose to be pedophiles, so as long as they control themselves and avoid harming anyone, I don’t like labelling them as evil monsters.

        • Whitehat Hacker@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          11 months ago

          This is a serious problem we are discussing, please don’t use this as an opportunity to inject bad-faith arguments.

          Edit: Wow your post history is a lot of the same garbage, there is no point in attempting to reason with you, you seem to be defending the act of CSAM or just trolling (really awful and severe trolling I might add, CSAM isn’t something to joke or troll about).

            • Whitehat Hacker@lemmy.world
              3·
              11 months ago

              Ah I see what’s going on, you’re salty that they closed the shitposting community so you’re trolling here, going so far as to compare gays and jews to pedophillia (which is extremely bigoted and incorrect) or downplay the horrific acts that led to the closing of that community and registrations to protect the rest of the Instance’s well being.

              Also I’d appreciate it if you didn’t edit what I said when quoting me, thanks.