I’ve seen the controversy where lemmy.world defederated from 2 piracy instances. So since there is no one big owner what is stopping someone creating a instance that host CP or other illegal stuff?
From what it seems like is instances can try to defederate from those instances but the only justice that can happen seems only from government/police but that only works in certain countries because more can just pop up bypassing the defederation.
I’m kinda concerned if this issue has no solution because it’s a pretty sharp edge of the double edge sword of having instances anyone can create and host.
Because someone can just host a CP instance and now that instance even if defederated from other instances still provides a safe space for pedophiles to share content and other illegal stuff.
Also what is stopping someone from creating an instance that has a slur for its name and then go around in other federated instances and post comments and make post. Like you don’t want someone named "NAZI_LOVER@n-word.f-slur
If someone it stupid enough to publicly host CP on their own instance then I very much doubt they would be able to hide from the cops. If they are privately hosting illegal content then I don’t think it really matters what software they are using.
But I mean you can host it publicly and be fine if you put enough effort into hiding yourself I would assume. But even if it’s in plain sight doesn’t mean it won’t be taken down quickly. Also it depends on country to country too, some counties might take swift action while some might put it on the back burner for a long time or won’t even try at all.
But anyone anywhere can host an instance and they can try to hide the best they can and it might actually work. Yes it’s a stupid decision to do that in the first place but that won’t stop people. Even if it’s up for a week then that’s a problem.