Comparing a solo developer's unmoderated hobby site to multi-million dollar corporations like 4chan or VRChat is legally and technically absurd 😭. 4chan and VRChat are not unmoderated. 4chan employs an aggressive, 24/7 global team of paid and volunteer moderators (janitors) who utilize sophisticated, automated digital fingerprint tracking (like PhotoDNA) to instantly scrub illegal material and block perpetrators the millisecond it hits their servers. VRChat employs massive automated tools, trust-and-safety teams, and an aggressive reporting system backed by parent company funding. Perchance has none of this infrastructure; and the flimsy “moderation” that is present, has an insurmountable level of INTERNATIONAL evidence regarding its ineffectiveness (17 literal police reports to be exact). There is a vast legal gap between a platform being "not 100% foolproof" and a platform being "willfully negligent." Nobody is demanding the developer be a psychic who stops 100% of crimes before they happen. The issue is that Perchance's "basic oversight" is purely performative and completely broken. If a bank installs a cardboard cutout of a security guard, they cannot claim "basic security exists" when they get robbed. The law requires reasonable and effective moderation once a systemic crisis is brought to the owner's attention. Under federal statutes, a platform cannot throw its hands up and say "it's the wild west, protect yourselves" when dealing with severe child exploitation.
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