Facebook’s testing a new method to prevent revenge porn that requires uploading your nudes (techcrunch.com).
But, but… Isn’t uploading nudies—of yourself or of anybody else, including porn stars or nippleage of any ubiquitous “college humour hot chicks”—against F’book’s TOS? Doesn’t that seem rather illogical, or just practical damage limitation suggesting that, like those real-name policies, the TOS isn‘t worth the digital paper it’s written on?
“Facebook is testing a new method to combat revenge porn in Australia, the Australia Broadcasting Corporation reports. The strategy entails uploading your nude photos or videos to Messenger in order to help Facebook tag it as non-consensual explicit media.”
Which you might flag as simply opportunistic in other scenarios where much effort is spent warning Insta-era fems, and chaps who like to show a lil’ more than their pecs and abs with any and every they can send them to, about third party scams promising the equivalent of “Trust me, you can upload, I’ll look after them for you.”
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