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Navy, Marines Prohibit Sharing Nude Photos In Wake of a Facebook Scandal (fortune.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: The Navy and Marine Corps issued new regulations that ban members from sharing nude photographs following a scandal involving military personnel sharing intimate pictures of their female colleagues -- some of which were taken without their knowledge -- in a secret Facebook group. The new statute, which was signed Tuesday by Acting Navy Secretary Sean Stackley, went into effect immediately and will be made permanent when the next edition of the Navy's regulations is printed, according to Navy Times. Military courts will handle violations of the new rule. The crackdown comes after a Facebook group was uncovered featuring naked photos of female service members. The group was eventually shut down by Facebook after a request from the Marine Corps. The Center for Investigative Reporting found that some of the photographs posted on the Facebook group may have been taken consensually, but others may not have been.
Pics or it didn't happen.
50 years ago, all of those photos would have been classified as obscene materials
Horseshit. People have been sharing photos of naked people since the camera was invented. There's nothing at all new here. 50 years ago you could have gotten in deep shit for sharing photos of naked people without their consent. Today you can get in deep shit for sharing photos of naked people without their consent. Heck 65 years ago men were staring at nude images of Marilyn Monroe purchasable from a News outlet. The concept of consent and model releases predate Playboy too.
The only thing that has changed is that women stopped just lying and taking it when a superior male told them what to do. Incidentally the majority of this changed 50 years ago as well.
If you only just discovered the brave new world, you must have been in a long coma.