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 god help you if you post a nipple tho. 
 @dee34601 These companies intentionally cripple their moderation systems. It's not about banning kids from the network. The company should do deep investigations of every account that is clearly scamming, posting videos of sex with dogs, posting toddlers in lingerie, whatever. You find the account and should carefully look into every single person who has followed, liked, otherwise interacted with that account. The current system is to pluck one grain of mold off the tub wall and say "all clean!" 
 @dee34601 It's a social network. These transgressions are networked. Picking off one account at a time following user complaints is absurd. They could use their knowledge of the social graph to shut these things down completely. That they don't do this obvious task says to me that they know something -- probably about how much of their network's use is by these illicit or dangerous networks. 
 @dee34601 I'm not talking about doing this for edge cases, every veiled threat, vaguely Nazi meme, possibly underage model. But I bet you'd get rid of a lot of that garbage too by cracking down on the most egregious violators and everyone who has ever "liked" one of their posts 
 @55f1cb6e honeypot moderation! 
 @dee34601 it´s the most fundamental tool of online research. You *always* spider out from a solid lead to see who and what that person is connected to.