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Twitter Bans "Revenge Porn" Photos

posted by janrinok on Monday March 16 2015, @05:16AM   
from the nudge-nudge-wink-wink dept.

NotSanguine writes:

Phys.Org is reporting that Twitter has announced that it is banning the posting of sexually explicit images without the consent of the subject of those images.

From the article:

Twitter has become the latest online platform to ban "revenge porn," or the posting of sexually explicit images of a person without consent. In updated terms of service released Wednesday, Twitter explicitly banned "intimate photos or videos that were taken or distributed without the subject's consent."

The update comes following Reddit's announcement last month of a similar ban, which came after the online bulletin board was criticized for allowing the distribution of hacked nude pictures of Hollywood stars.

Have you been a victim of "revenge porn"? Have you posted explicit photos of others without their permission?

Would any lawyers care to jump in and discuss what copyright infringement issues, if any, might be raised?

• Here? Here? (Score: 5, Funny) by sigma on Monday March 16 2015, @05:27AM

  by sigma (1225) on Monday March 16 2015, @05:27AM (#158227)

  For most of the denizens of Soylent News, avoiding revenge porn is as simple as "Don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing".

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• Re:Here? (Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Monday March 16 2015, @03:48PM

  by Jeremiah Cornelius (2785) on Monday March 16 2015, @03:48PM (#158420) Journal

  I was never the victim of revenge porn...

  but my cat once was.

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  You're betting on the pantomime horse...

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