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

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, Interesting) by Marneus68 on Monday March 16 2015, @08:56AM

    by Marneus68 (3572) on Monday March 16 2015, @08:56AM (#158276) Homepage

    >Would any lawyers care to jump in and discuss what copyright infringement issues, if any, might be raised?
    I'm no lawyer, but I know the legal implication of this kind of behavior in my country (France) and I think that every slightly technical people should at least know the basics regarding that. That's an interesting aspect of the question, that's for sure, but I'm more interested in the "how" than the "why". How do you enforce that and how do you make sure that it is not abused, because knowing the "trigger happy" over-sensitive, easy to offend and dishonest people you can find on twitter, I'm pretty sure that if they put any kind of automatic flagging mechanism in place, it will be used maliciously, to silence critique and opposition for instance. Certain recent examples of abuse of copyright flagging system on youtube jump to mind.

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