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Twitter Bans "Revenge Porn" Photos

posted by janrinok on Monday March 16 2015, @05:16AM   Printer-friendly
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?

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Monday March 16 2015, @06:08AM

    by frojack (1554) on Monday March 16 2015, @06:08AM (#158238) Journal

    Oh, what an excellent troll, well done sir.
    Now you sit back and reel them in.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by SlimmPickens on Monday March 16 2015, @06:22AM

    by SlimmPickens (1056) on Monday March 16 2015, @06:22AM (#158241)

    See, this and the parent are precisely the sort of posts that need granular multi-modding.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @08:05AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @08:05AM (#158264)

      No, they just need to be revenge porn-ed for sticking up (so to speak) for hate speech, defamation, and overall ass-hat buggery. If any only wants pics of these cretins, post your email here! (Hmm, a double SJW Honeypot! Will they be stupid enough to fall for it?)