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How do you moderate adult contents

I've started a static website hosting service https://www.clodui.com, recently I noticed some users are creating websites with adult contents. I'm a solo founder bootstrapping this business, don't have funding to recruit moderators.

Is there a service, tools or library which can help to automatically detect adult contents?

Thanks

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    Both Google and Amazon have content moderation tools to automate some of this kind of stuff:

    https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/detecting-safe-search/
    https://docs.aws.amazon.com/rekognition/latest/dg/what-is.html

    Not sure how difficult they are to implement, or how effective/accurate they are.

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      thanks, I'll check those

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    Hey! Is it an issue for you to host adult content?

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      Not an issue as long as it is legal, what I would like to have is show message/warning before a user visits that website

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        Instead of integrating some pieces of tech, is it not just more simple to ask your users what industry they are on (also precise that adult content is not an issue), and warn them to you will enable a warning pop-up for these types of hosted content.

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          there's still the issue if someone lies and uploads illegal content, amazon rekognition can identify inappropriate content (some of which may be legal, but there is also illegal adult content), and can probably be automated through a shell script to just search the entire file system and report on anything found

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          Good point, I didn't think that way. Thank you

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        Devil's advocate here, but why do you see the need in providing visitors to this site with a warning? I could be wrong here, but I don't believe there's any laws that say that adult content has to warn / ask for age verification or what not.

        I completely understand the desire to not have illicit things being hosted, but at the end of the day the AI services out there can't detect child porn vs. regular porn, so they won't be able to solve the illegal content issue.

        I would assume a lot of the adult content is coming from free users, have you thought about outlining that the free tier /cannot/ host adult content at all, and then simply lock down those adult sites when you run into them? Could just spot checks things periodically until the scale exceeds that.

        I have to imagine that free hosting in general is going to attracts more than just adult content (warez/downloadable content, credit card dumps, etc).

        I assume this applies to services as well as just websites that host user-generated content, but there are some safeguards in terms of how responsible you are in relationship to the content that a user has submitted -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-generated_content#Legal_problems

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          I need to understand more about the legal implications, also rules vary based on the country as well. Adding proper ToS as you suggested could safeguard from any legal trouble.

          My plan is to add an option for the user to enter the industry they are on, as suggested by @NxAlessandro which could eliminate any automated checks, then later decide on whether to show the warning screen or not.

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            Honestly, if you're going to do anything automated, you should do it across the board. It will yield more false positives, but it will also properly handle folks that will lie about their industry to get around the checks.

            Nature always finds a way, that's why I bring up not moderating at all. In a lot of ways trying to enforce subjective things ends up being a losing battle. It takes time to implement trip wires and all of that. It takes time to manually review content as well. That's all time that could be spent on features or with your family, friends and hobbies.

            I've been down the moderation rabbit hole a few times, and there wasn't an end that I could find.

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              thank you, those are valid points. I need to re-think a bit more on it and decide.

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