Interpreting a developer's total silence as "legal confidence" is a massive, naive assumption. He is likely ignoring it because he is a solo hobbyist who is completely unequipped to handle a federal child safety crisis. Missing the point award 🥇; I’m clearly stating they possess the corporate and legal infrastructure to survive federal crackdowns, whereas Perchance's chat feature does not. The BBC article you pasted explicitly states that 4chan was “legally backed into a corner after years of massive federal and international pressure” and forced to use advanced automated tracing tools like PhotoDNA. THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IVE BEEN WHISTLEBLOWING 4chan barely survives on a shoestring budget by cooperating with federal agencies and running active hash-filters. Perchance has zero server-side hash filtering. VRChat survives because it logs data, cooperates with subpoenas, and actively hands predators over to law enforcement.

For the record, since someone as nitpicky as you would assume for some wild reason; I’m not English 🫩. Using the word mate, which is a highly frequent term itself, isn’t limited to the UK at all; and I’ve been citing US legal statues this whole time. The NCMEC is a United States federal clearinghouse established by Congress. Perchance operates on clear-web infrastructure subject to U.S. federal jurisdiction. This has absolutely nothing to do with UK law or "China-style censorship." It has everything to do with strict U.S. federal criminal statutes that carry absolute zero-tolerance mandatory minimums.

And there was a user, who goes by nosight if the developer would like to verify on the gen I mentioned, that wrote an entire literal testimony abiut how he’d kill student in his school, and how he borrows influence from Adam Lanza