This is the US, minors posting themselves would also lead to arrests.
(And the actual platform with a reputation for minors selling their nudes would be Snapchat)
This is the US, minors posting themselves would also lead to arrests.
(And the actual platform with a reputation for minors selling their nudes would be Snapchat)
The article explains it in one case, an adult woman verified the account and then they posted a minor’s videos on it instead.
But the article also said that they only know about 30 cases in 5 years in the US. Which doesn’t sound like a huge amount to me personally (still too many obviously)
Yeah.
Diaz set up an account and had a woman verify it as hers. That woman, whom police didn’t identify, later quit OnlyFans. But her account remained live and accessible to Diaz. He filled it with videos of the underage girl
That’s really not easy to catch, no matter what platform you are. Some people will do complicated shit to evade the eyes of the law for their illicit activities.
The statistics thing is a downside of how Mastodon implements ActivityPub.
Two possibilites:
I think you can simply hide the counts if it irritates you.
You can install Fedifetcher to pull in missing interactions to your local server: https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher