> Earlier this year we saw an increase in the number of reports we received about some people using our service in ways that we cannot tolerate. To be more clear, this was not about some people merely saying things that others disliked.
That’s only slightly more clear, since it just says what’s not happening. Does anyone know what is happening? Does it involve potential violations of law, or is it just the TOS?
My guess would be pornography. That seems like the most obvious use of a video calling service, and something that would cause them to run afoul of various legal requirements (e.g. age verification / records keeping).
Sexually explicit "meetings" wouldn't even be a particularly surprising use case, and 18 USC 2257 has a bunch of carve-outs for service providers.
My suspicion is that there was CSAM or similarly abhorrent content being broadcast in meetings. Unfortunately, this is a class of users which would be drawn to a service which promised anonymity and E2E encryption.
Given what they provided you can be sure it involved stuff like CP, human traffican, forced prostitution.
All things you don't want your company to be associated with so you don't name it.
If it would just have been things which are illegal but not that problematic like copyright violations or a bit of (legal, non forced) porn they might have spelled it out.
Zoom... 25 years ago I left an MBONE service running unsupervised and changed roles. 6 months later a colleague sent me the dic pix that were being shared in low-fi B&W slowscan MBONE video.
Reaching back even further, we were told in the very early 1980s by the University of York computer centre that all line printer overstrike images were henceforth banned, after it was noted the operators had printed a reasonably hi-res full length nude, burning at least one ribbon to shreds doing it. I think it was 6 sheets of fanfold in 3x3
That’s only slightly more clear, since it just says what’s not happening. Does anyone know what is happening? Does it involve potential violations of law, or is it just the TOS?