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Lol, it was my GOTO specifically because it doesn't require a login and I can send it to my parents who need minimal clicks to enter the room. I even have family that doesn't have a github, facebook, nor google account, so they won't be able to join.
Amazing move Jitsi.
What kind of "illegal things" were they doing? Say it, so that we can comprehend. Make it make sense.
Safe to assume it was child porn, because that ends up being an issue on any service that lets people share images or video privately. By not stating it directly, they don't prompt news organizations to quote the company in click bait articles about how their platform enables child porn as if that wasn't a universal issue that all services have to actively discourage.
Tbf I'd not get angry if it was jihadist recruitment, child porn, human trafficking, etc. etc.
But won't those criminals always find another way of communicating? If you're doing something illegal, it's worth it to you to go through some hoops to have safe and private communication. All this does is remove that option from less tech literate people.
But now the illegal content is not happening on their owned instance, taking them off the hook.
Communication network providers in the EU generally aren't liable for illegal activity of their users.
That doesn't make it a non-issue. Ignoring the obvious ethical issues, there are still serious costs to addressing conduct they're made aware of, both in terms of actual man hours and mental health of any employees, and the actual bandwidth of the abusive traffic.
@elouboub
@esaru
Shodan finds 21k instances. https://meet.ffmuc.net/ and https://meet.element.io/ are just two, and I don't expect them to require log in.
I'm on mobile, but does meet.element.io just work? I would expect that to only work for Matrix users
@ReversalHatchery
Just verified (from mobile) and it just works 🤷
If I'm reading it correctly, you only need one person in the meeting to have one of those accounts.