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Facebook Flooded With 'Sextortion' and Revenge Porn, Files Reveal (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Facebook had to assess nearly 54,000 potential cases of revenge pornography and "sextortion" on the site in a single month, according to a leaked document. Figures shared with staff reveal that in January Facebook had to disable more than 14,000 accounts related to these types of sexual abuse -- and 33 of the cases reviewed involved children. The company relies on users to report most abusive content, meaning the real scale of the problem could be much greater. But the Guardian has been told that moderators find Facebook's policies on sexual content the hardest to follow. "Sexual policy is the one where moderators make most mistakes," said a source. "It is very complex." Facebook admitted this was a high priority area and that it was using "image-matching" software to stop explicit content getting on to the site. It also acknowledged it was difficult to draw a line between acceptable and unacceptable sexual content.
Is it really a shock that the human race is full of a bunch of morally corrupt douche bags? You allow people to post anything you want and that's what you are going to get.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
...when you try to do a social/news/chat/porn/whatever website all in one: you get every kind of problem to deal with, and you specialize in solving none.
What do you expect when they are the fascist propganda arm of the Dhimocratic party?
Elaine moaned happily as she faked her orgasm, clenching down around Marlon's cock with her cunt.
- Men are such idiots, - she thought smugly as she watched him stiffen and shoot his sperm into his condom, - Tighten your pussy a couple of times and they think they've given you the fuck of the century. -
Elaine usually came with Marlon, but today she just hadn't been into it and really just wanted to watch Letterman, so she faked it.
"Wow!" gasped Marlon, pushing forward a couple more times, his admittedly large cock pushing apart her cunt,"Some fuck, huh?"
"Oooh yeah baby, you're the greatest," she moaned back at him.
He slowly pulled out and flopped onto his back, his cock was slightly softened, and had fallen back onto his belly, it looked like a little blind man in a slicker and Elaine stifled a giggle, if there was one thing men hated it was to be laughed at when they were naked.
"Say, wanna watch Letterman?" she asked him, picking up the remote control.
"Yeah, whatever," he moaned, like most men Marlon lost interest in everything just after sex.
She flicked it on, Letterman was introducing his first guest of the evening, Jennifer Love Hewitt.
"Man, she's hot," muttered Marlon through half-closed eyelids.
"Hmmm?" asked Elaine.
"I love women with big tits," he whispered, half asleep now.
Elaine grinned,"Then you must love me!"
Marlon looked over at her with an almost disinterested look, he rolled over and muttered something before dropping off.
"Huh!" muttered Elaine, losing interest in Letterman.
"What's with the water?" asked Jerry.
"What?" replied George, a phony grin on his face,"A guy can't drink water?"
"That's like your seventh glass of water since we got in here."
George looked a little embarassed,"Ummm... I... I'm keeping myself hydrated."
"Uuhhhh, Georgie Porgie on a fitness kick?" laughed Jerry, just loud enough so people around them could hear. He knew George hated people to think he was insecure about his health and fitness, even though he was.
"What's wrong with keeping in shape?"
Jerry raised an eyebrow,"I think you left being in shape behind in grade school."
George snorted.
"So anyway," he said,"I heard that you gotta drink sixty cups of water a day to keep hydrated... man! sixty! No wonder I'm in such bad shape, I haven't been getting enough water!"
"Yeah, that's the reason," Jerry murmured.
Elaine entered the cafe.
"Lainee!" cried Jerry.
"Hmmmph," Elaine hmmmphed, sitting down next to Jerry.
"What's the problem?" asked Jerry, but before she could reply George interrupted.
"The water jug is empty... is it to much to ask they kept it full?"
"Yeah George," grunted Elaine, rolling her eyes,"It real high on their list of priorities."
"I'm going to get some more, you gotta have sixty cups of water a day you know."
He got up and walked to the counter, Elaine turned to look at Jerry.
"Sixty cups? Shouldn't that be six tea cups?"
Jerry smiled, thin and sardonic,"Shhhh, this is more fun than telling him."
George returned, he poured himself a glass of water and sat down, as he took his first sip he glanced at his watch.
"Oh wow!" he said, putting the glass down,"I have to meet Linda at her work, I gotta go."
He stood up and grabbed the glass, bringing it to his lips he threw his head back and swallowed it all down, thumped it on to the table and walked out with a brief wave at the two of them.
"I guess that's a loser's idea of a kegger?" Elaine commented,"Hey, what's Linda like, he's been going out with her for nearly a month now... for us that's huge."
"Yeah, he's been saying he's gotten really comfortable with her, so I think we know what's next...."
"Yep, he's gonna dump her."
"Exactly!"
The waitress finally realized that Elaine had arrived and came to take her order, she got a slice of apple pie.
"Anyway,"
The poster didn't offer any examples, ya know, just for research purposes.
If it's pink, it's _WRONG_. Red? Okay, then.
My first response was "So, you're going to blackmail me with pictures of me doing shit that everyone's already seen me doing in the past? Get a life you fucking broke-bitch virgin. Release them, I'll make more money than you will."
Doesn't work very well when your intended 'victim' already had a bit of a career in porn, and also freely showed themselves the moment they were legal, 16 years ago.
If people were more like me, this kind of problem wouldn't exist.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
"Facebook Flooded With 'Sextortion' and Revenge Porn, Files Reveal"
"Facebook had to assess nearly 54,000 potential cases of revenge pornography and "sextortion" on the site in a single month"
Um, this site claims there were almost 5 billion pieces of content posted in march 2017. .0001% of all items? Wow, a flood?
"in January Facebook had to disable more than 14,000 accounts related to these types of sexual abuse"
This site (again) claims there were 1.94 billion active accounts in March 2017... Hard'y a huge fraction they disabled. .00072%?
"and 33 of the cases reviewed involved children."
This, however, is truly despicable. And virtually immeasurable. Sad to think they must have missed a lot more.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
difficult to impossible to enforce, actually. Since Facebook's employees can't go trolling through random user's Facebook feeds looking for things that violate imagery rules, there's effectively no way to enforce them.
Proud neuron in the Slashdot hivemind since 2002.
33 of the cases reviewed involved children
This could be a stupid teen sextoring an ex-girlfreind, a stupid 13 year old being childish and posting nudes of his sister, or a real sexual predator using Facebook to exploit preschoolers.
On the "badness scale," that last one is much, much worse than the other two.
These shouldn't be all lumped together just cecause they all involve minors.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
So that's 1,940,000,000 written out. The article mentions 14,000 of those were problematic and had to be shut down. That's 0.0007% of accounts.
Assuming 20 drops per mL, there are 90921 drops of water in a gallon of water. So one drop of water in a gallon is 0.02%. To even push it to the same order of magnitude would need 100 gallons of water. Would anyone consider one drop in 100 gallons of water "flooding"?
Not to say that I approve of revenge porn or extortion, but the amount of incidents reported in the article is nothing close to flooding, even if it's five or ten times worse than the reported numbers, and further illustrates the difficulty of trying to find this kind of abuse buried among all the legitimate traffic on the site, plus dealing with false positives or "approved" nudity mentioned in the aricle.
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"Sexual policy is the one where moderators make most mistakes," said a source. "It is very complex."
Yes, this is because they are all rediculous and ultimately at their very root, based on socio-political norms that are constantly changing and never in agreement.
The biggest example of course being, "does a bare female breast constitute porn?"
What's the difference between a male breast and a female breast? The female one produces milk for infants. What's the societal difference? Female breasts are sexual. By this logic, an infant getting milk is a sexual act, and a man's wife biting his nipple during sex, is not.
If anything, male breasts should be considered sexual. Female breasts at least serve a biological purpose. Male breasts are only useful as an erogenous zone.
Whoever it was that told me "Don't get a Facebook account", thank you. That was more than 10 years ago and your advice is still sound.
Oh, wait....that was me who said, "Don't get a Facebook account". Thank you, me!
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
I wish people would forget about censorship, and just insist on tagging.
So if I'm offended by the naked breast, then all I need to do is filter on the 'naked breast' tag.
I'm pretty jaded about most of the stuff that I see on the internet, but even I'm reaching for the brain bleach when I come across surprise necro-bestiality. And that's not just beating off a dead horse there.
Just tag that shit so that people who don't want to see it don't see it (and conversely, those who do want to, can.)