“Having manual ways to remove csam” means almost nothing. All of lemmy has a “manual way to remove csam”. “closely working with NCMEC” can mean they just use the cloudflare mechanism which is just hash matching. Point is, it’s very easy for a malicious actor to upload csam and then report them to patreon for it, without ever reporting it to them.
It seems to be unspecified “automated and manual” systems plus reports from the NCMEC https://lemm.ee/post/65739566/20890503 , which they process quite fast https://lemm.ee/post/65739566/20890630 .
Sorry your links don’t work it seems. Maybe those posts were deleted.
In any case, if their “automated” is just hash matching, it’s just not going to cut it.
Just guessing what the links may have been…
Possibly my post on lemmy.world, removed due to breaking rule 2, “Only tech related news or articles”
I’ll copy paste my comment from there:
In the reply to Patreon they mentioned having some automated and manual ways of removing CSAM, plus “closely working with NCMEC”, but I have no idea what that means.
And these statistics of resolved reports: https://www.missingkids.org/content/dam/missingkids/pdfs/cybertiplinedata2024/2024-notifications-by-ncmec-resulting-content-removal.pdf
Total number of reports of 128 resolved on average in 1.91 days. Less than half the time spent by Amazon, Google and Microsoft (for Bing).
The other link might have been to this comment:
“Having manual ways to remove csam” means almost nothing. All of lemmy has a “manual way to remove csam”. “closely working with NCMEC” can mean they just use the cloudflare mechanism which is just hash matching. Point is, it’s very easy for a malicious actor to upload csam and then report them to patreon for it, without ever reporting it to them.