A guy on the internet who does things sometimes

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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • If you’re in the US our laws would allow you to view the file to check if it does indeed violate the law, so long as you properly delete it and any potential backup of it immediately

    You’re safe from being sued or held liable for hosting it due to the nature of your platform, and the required checking of the content before removal would be allowed (you could also theoretically leave it to the police to send you takedown requests instead, then you don’t even have to subject yourself to the potentially bad material)

    You could also implement some sort of hash scanning against known-bad data, there are datasets of hashes of files you could check against and deny the uploading or auto-delete/report to authorities if you wanted