It’s not covered in this post, but IP infringement is another moment in life when content moderation becomes necessary. You have to be above a certain scale for large IP owners to notice or care, but if you’re growing and allow users to upload media, you’ll eventually need to start handling DMCA requests at minimum.
Also worth noting that the infamous Section 230 is what allows companies to take these sort of best-effort, do-the-best-you-can approaches to content moderation without fear of lawsuit if they don’t get it perfect.
We built service [0] to cover the Copyright Infringement and other forms including CSAM and IBSA. While in US DMCA is enough, EU has new law [1] that goes way beyond the requirements of the previous law (E-commerce Directive, which is analogous to the DMCA).
What is infamous about it? People have to lie constantly to attack it and create outright alternative universes with distinctions that don't really exist.
Also worth noting that the infamous Section 230 is what allows companies to take these sort of best-effort, do-the-best-you-can approaches to content moderation without fear of lawsuit if they don’t get it perfect.