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Not that I’m the person to do it, mind you, but for your own safety and liability purposes I advise caution allowing uploaded images to be used.

As in, it may have the potential for content that you find disturbing, inappropriate, or illegal. Between stories/concepts like NEDM and Rule 34, the potential for misuse, if unregulated, could be exploited by an opportunistic bad actor.

At the bare minimum, use of Copyrighted material could foreseeably result in a view that your project, even at the free stage, is a form of enabling unauthorized derivative works…and result in litigation.




I've also read about various image hosting tools, such as apps for creating wallpapers, being overrun by pornography because communities where pornography is banned found it bypassed various automatic censors. If arbitrary image hosting is a subset of your functionality, it can be used as such.


I'm weary of this as well, but without traffic, its a problem I'll deal with later.

For now, I don't host much, and if the time comes, I'll add that google (or is it aws) service that scans inapprop things.


I don't really see how this is an issue? As far as I can tell, the above product does not host what you make, you have to find a place and upload it yourself when you're done with the editing.




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