Wow, I was not expecting to see this take in the wild. The ex-volunteer in question was the only person on the volunteer team with experience handling CSAM and was then kicked off the volunteer team. The owner of this site offered expertise in dealing with CSAM on social media sites (as they worked for LJ) and was turned down. I am also an ex-volunteer (I quit due to health issues, before all this started, and was not exposed to CSAM myself) and they're right that the structure of the site and how volunteers are managed is deeply fucked. And changing the Board (elected officials) may not help unless they can deal with the Chairs (unelected and more powerful and blocking hiring actual experts). This is the kind of problem most non-profits encounter as they grow, but the attacks using CSAM have to make reform of the volunteer structure a priority.
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