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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 Magic Oddball on Tuesday March 17 2015, @07:17AM

    by Magic Oddball (3847) on Tuesday March 17 2015, @07:17AM (#158776) Journal

    WTF — why are you even jokingly blaming mentally/physically disabled people for that kind of sociopathic behavior? It's bog-average, Joe Blow normal people that are behind that kind of crap, because at some point they got the impression that it was a-okay to bully, harass, and otherwise abuse people.

    A lesson I learned a while ago, that I'll now pass on to you: never assume that the kind of person you're making comments about isn't part of the group you're speaking/typing to. (Given my parents were pressured by medical staff to institutionalize me as a toddler in 1979 because I was "retarded" — non-verbal autistic w/GI defects — I'm pretty sure I would've been locked up 100 years ago.)

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 18 2015, @01:44AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 18 2015, @01:44AM (#159153) Journal

    Obviously, it went over most people's heads. Only some kind of mental deficient would feel the need to embarrass an ex-lover by posting nude images to the internet. Mentally deficient, as well as morally deficient.

    Or, are you prepared to defend these posters as mentally and morally normal persons?