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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

There's gotta be some kind of limited liability for this kind of thing. I mean, banks wouldn't be liable if someone put csam in a safe deposit box or (assuming they don't x-ray packages) UPS shipping csam in a sealed package. I think there just needs to be reasonable safeguards against it but I don't know if any of that is built into the software.

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Issue here is that what’s in a safe deposit box isn’t also being shared/distributed. It is locked away.

If, however, they made copies of the contents of a box and put it in other boxes … and it came out somebody used that for CSAM then there probably would be some kind of liability.

Besides CSAM there’s also copyrighted material, etc which section 230 kind of covers but even then gets tricky since there’s a duty to respond to DMCA takedowns in order to get safe harbor protections.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It'd be a little more like someone going to a Kinko's (or whatever like that exists anymore) and using their copiers to copy CSAM.

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Exactly. And in such a scenario it becomes an issue for Kinkos

[–] pedroapero@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Unfortunately we are at a point where Cisco Cloudflare and Google are held liable for filesharing-related domains their DNS relays are resolving IPs for...