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Tumblr Has a Massive Creepshots Problem (vice.com)
After Reddit famously banned the creepshots sub-reddit, which shared non-consensual, revealing photos of women, Tumblr now has a slew of users pushing out similar photos across at least dozens of dedicated blogs, a Motherboard investigation has found. From the report: Simply typing 'creepshot' or related terms into Tumblr's built-in search function returns a steady stream of tagged posts, and Google queries easily reveal links to relevant Tumblr blogs. Motherboard found just under 70 Tumblr blogs focused on sharing creepshots, most with a bevy of content. In some cases, the Tumblrs also host 'upskirt' photos or videos, where a camera is deliberately, and stealthily, positioned to look up an unsuspecting person's skirt. Some of the subjects of these images, as well as many of the clothed creepshots, appear to be young, possibly teenagers.
"This is only the tip of the iceberg, there are probably hundreds of these accounts filming in high schools, college campuses, in malls, and on the streets. And Tumblr seems to not care at all about the problem," an anonymous tipster, who first alerted Motherboard to the issue, wrote in an email. One of the most popular creepshot Tumblrs has some 11,000 followers, and one of its posts has over 53,000 interactions linked to it, including reblogs, where the video or picture then appears on the user's own Tumblr, spreading the content further.
"This is only the tip of the iceberg, there are probably hundreds of these accounts filming in high schools, college campuses, in malls, and on the streets. And Tumblr seems to not care at all about the problem," an anonymous tipster, who first alerted Motherboard to the issue, wrote in an email. One of the most popular creepshot Tumblrs has some 11,000 followers, and one of its posts has over 53,000 interactions linked to it, including reblogs, where the video or picture then appears on the user's own Tumblr, spreading the content further.
if it's not one thing it's another.
Get on board and start cracking down on your users and tell them how to behave!
We have to get rid of all the russian nazis before they influence any more elections
I was looking for a good source of creepshots. Time to start mirroring.
If a group of users who like posting pictures like this just move from one site to another like locusts, it's not really a problem with wherever they land - it's a social and people problem.
What can you do about it? Nothing at all, that's what. They will just go somewhere else even if you somehow managed to block them from whatever site they are on now.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Slashdot appears to have a liberal bias problem, because we keep on getting stories about how tech sites are victimizing those poor, helpless, vulnerable women who are also incredibly powerful but that we're apparently harassing out of tech despite the fact that merely looking at a woman is enough to get you fired these days.
People are posting pictures of people that they took in public. Who cares? Apparently the whining liberals who are constantly on the lookout for things to be outraged over, unable to figure out why the rest of the world hates them.
If you ban it on the light web, the streisand effect will take it underground.
just sayin if you search that on tumblr you will notice nearly every person pictured is high school aged or from a foreign country (usually brazil for obvious reasons)
I just searched tumblr for this 'creepshot' thing and all I got was shots of butts clad in jeans or whatever. They're barely sexual if you ask me, despite what the summary tells us.
Do I need to disable some NSFW filter to see worse stuff?
You can go on usenet 20 years ago and find this.
This is a "internet is serious business" problem.
Idiots are discovering for the first time that there are no rules online, and that everything that can be shared will be shared.
Content is not their business. They provide a communication service, not a babysitting service. Fuck all the people that want more censorship here also. Unfortunately they have too much clout, and Tumblr will probably cave. After all, it is a business, and I don't believe they want to throw good money at litigation, no matter the principle of the thing. The real goal we need to pursue without further discussion is to make the internet truly decentralized and impossible to censor. Fuck all the crybabies who want control!
Pics or it didn't happen.
[ What? Don't look at me like that; you were thinking it too. :-) ]
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Please censor this ASAP, it is discussing.
https://creepshotcandid.tumblr...
Let me have a peek to complain to the L'Osservatore Romano....
Horrible!
Let me have another peek to call the Sharia police....
Thats bad really.
Hmmmmm, let me have another pic just because some sin might have escaped me....
For those of us who are not in fact creeps and don't necessarily want first-hand exposure to it, what _is_ a "creepshot" and why is it assumed that all readers of this site already know the term?
There are plenty of photos where the woman knew she was photographed, many times, taking the photograph herself: But did she know the photograph would be publicly available on Tumblr or other web-sites? Most women aren't famous like Paris Hilton or Pamela Anderson, so the damage from such theft of privacy, is negligible. The issue isn't peeping-toms spying on schoolgirls, or peeping-toms with cameras as everyone thinks, it's the continued objectification of women, many times, perpetrated by the woman herself. Part of this is biological: Women have something men can't access on demand. Part of this is sociological: Standards of beauty promote that biological power structure.
Tumblr seems to not care...
The only power Tumblr has is censoring such images, which seems like a no-brainer to enforce. But, like on Facebook, it's people behaving badly that creates traffic, which is what free web-sites need. While Facebook is a bulletin board of fake news shoved under subscriber's noses, Tumblr tends to carry true images of (naked) people, hidden from view until demanded. Information wants to be free, so if Tumblr doesn't provide the content, someone else, will. Besides, there are plenty of web-sites censoring photos, so a web-site full of uncensored truth has much credibility. Thus, Tumblr must balance their truth-on-demand service with the cost of that truth, the objectification of females. It's difficult to justify the stalking of schoolgirls, so public disapproval will fix the creep-shot part of the problem.
... we'll probably be okay.
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Yeah? How do ya route around your ISP when they snip your cable and jam your wifi?
VPN
Cell Internet
Satellite Internet
Library Internet
Library Internet in other states
Move to one of many countries that welcome pervs/pedophiles.
and so on.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
These Creep-Shot people are just being used as tools to try and kill off free and open expression. It's impossible to say which of these are jerks, and which are false flag operations trying to present the problem as worse than it really is.
I don't like creep shots but I hate censorship far more.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
They also have an absolutely loonie far leftist nut job problem but they aren't doing anything about that either because that's who runs the company.
Tumblr gets most of their traffic due to the huge variety of niche pornography that they host. Why is anyone surprised that they are specifically hosting creepshot pics?
The upskirt images are not appropriate or legal, but it is legal to take images of people in public settings, isn't it?
We have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public, as the US government and the media industry has made quite clear.
Also, while it is amazing what some of these woman are wearing in public, presumably they were aware of their appearance when they left the house?
Maybe if people stop expecting that they have a right to privacy when out in public they can stop getting angry when someone sees them. Seriously google creepshot. If the resulting photo of normally fully dressed women viewed from public and obvious places annoys you then maybe you are part of the problem. If finding a picture of yourself pointing your g-string in the direction of a camera through skin tight leggings which are about 4 sizes too small disturbs you, maybe you shouldn't dress that way in public if you don't want people to see you that way.
tl;dr: the creeps and the girls flaunting their sexuality are both assholes and idiots.
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Wear revealing clothes and do your absolute best to flaunt your sexuality in public?
People ("creeps") will take notice. Why are you mad? Attention is exactly what you wanted isn't it?
Oh, wait, I know why you're mad. It's because you feel humiliated when people just take pictures of what you're flaunting.
Well you can't have your cake and eat it too, princess. Wear a whore's uniform and try to get extra attention from being sexy and then you'll be treated like a sexual object-- but it's you that's making yourself a sexual object so you have no right to complain.
So, presuming that this is a problem, what should be done about this?
I only see two ways to go:
1. Burqas or some similar regulation to prevent people of both sexes from flaunting their sexuality (and thus getting extra attention or whatever from it).
2. Everyone shut up and let those who choose to play such games reap what they sow and don't give them any sympathy or attention or help.
My vote is for #2
Let the creeps and the attention whores play their stupid games and generate their dumb little drama and get this stupid shit off
there wouldn't be a creep shot issue at all. You might even say they deserved it for what they were wearing.
kike
And Tumblr seems to not care at all about the problem,
It's the same with their rape videos, or videos showing torture. And no, I don't mean the simulated ones. I mean women who are unconscious being raped, one on a kitchen counter fighting off her attacker, and so on.
That's the real reason Tumblr forced people to get an account. They think they're hiding these photos/videos but as this story shows, it's really just a shell game.
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Tumblr will presumably then remove this content.
Presumably? It's Tumblr. 10% chance it's gone, 15% chance it's highlighted.
If you find this series of events objectionable, what's your preferred alternative? Should Tumblr be compelled by law to host them?
Yep, if you are going to run an image hosting site, cannot discriminate based on content, only illegal materials get removed. If someone wants to say creepy images are illegal, fine, but they have to codify what that MEANS.
They aren't obligated, legally or ethically, to display anything they don't want on that wall.
Legally? No. Ethically? There I would argue they do have an obligation to host the material, no matter how distasteful.
A whole other level of problem related to the content being removed is, how much of it is staged... at this point there is nothing you would consider immoral or creepy that does not have a large number of people producing porn and other images based around the concept.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
"Just under 70" (i.e., "69") blogs about sexual images?
This comedy writes itself...
Capitalist stooges both of you.
stories that have nothing to do with news for nerds. site is basically dead. all the posts are shit and nobody actually uses accounts anymore.
Yup. You can move along now.
I'm sorry, but there is no fucking expectation of 'privacy' when out in public. So if females are showing tit or cameltoe or their ass poured into yoga pants....guess what...tough shit. You no likely?...then cover up in public. Wear fucking panties or shorts under a skirt.
As a male, if I don't want to show the outline of my cock in public, I don't dress like fucking Peter Pan...no pun intended.
This isn't a hard concept to grasp...also no pun intended. Lol.
I don't see a problem Girls go out dressed like this to be seen. Of course SJW have to make a big fuss about it.