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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: 1) by wisnoskij on Monday March 16 2015, @01:09PM

    by wisnoskij (5149) <reversethis-{moc ... ksonsiwnohtanoj}> on Monday March 16 2015, @01:09PM (#158326)

    There is really nothing to discuss unless you wish to argue that private enterprises should be regulated as to what speech they allow on their platforms.

    Arguably the laws are extremely outdated. If facebook, G+,twitter, youtube, Bing, and Google all censor free speech, it simply does not exist any more. 99.99999999999999% of all speech happens on private business's servers. And let us not forget that the phone lines are privately owned, your ISP connection is privately owned. So what? as long as you speech softly enough in your own home, with the blinds drawn and a "beware of speech" sign on your front door you just might be allowed to say whatever you want? Assuming it is not something negative against a protected group and is therefore considered hate speech. There are somethings I would only be allowed to say on a KKK forum. So is that what it has come to? Free Speech is alive and well as long as we have designated free speech zones, conveniently places far away from everyone else?

  • (Score: 2) by halcyon1234 on Monday March 16 2015, @02:49PM

    by halcyon1234 (1082) on Monday March 16 2015, @02:49PM (#158380)

    There are somethings I would only be allowed to say on a KKK forum.

    And plenty of things you'd be "censored" for saying on a KKK forum. So what's your point?

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