An Image Site Is Victimizing Countless Women and Little Can Be Done (vice.com)

Allison Tierney, reporting for Vice: An international anonymous photo-sharing site where people post explicit photos without consent is playing host to the victimization of countless women. In the Canadian section of Anon-IB alone, there are currently over a hundred threads -- often organized by region, city, or calling out for nudes of a specific woman to be posted publicly. "Hamilton hoes," "Nanaimo Thread!," and "Markham wins" are some titles of Canadian threads. (Language used on the site equates the word "win" with sexually explicit photos of women.) Many major Canadian cities are represented on the site, and some threads even focus on women from specific schools. While it's a crime to share an "intimate image" of a person without their consent in Canada, sites that host this kind of activity don't necessarily fall under this. "[In terms of organizing content], is it criminal? No. Is it illegal? No," Toronto-based lawyer Jordan Donich, of Donich Law, told VICE. "It's a newer version of an older problem -- sites like these have been around for a long time." Anon-IB is not a new site; its current domain was registered to a "private person" in 2015 and ends in an ".ru." However, the site was initially up several years before 2015, going offline briefly in 2014.

Comments

No Links?

[sycodon]

WTF dude?

Re:No Links?

[PopeRatzo]

I've been here before but just via some Google result accidently.

I know, right? I told my wife the same thing and she still threw a plate at my head.

Re:How is this news?

[HornWumpus]

This is why I'm working on my labia shape hash algorithm. Facial recognition isn't good enough.

Ladies, it's only going to work as well as the database, be sure and submit images of yours. It's the only way to get the notice if someone puts an image of your goodies on the net.