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Facebook Asks British Users To Submit Their Nudes as Protection Against Revenge Porn (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the aggressive-expansion dept.

Mark Wilson writes: Following on from a trial in Australia, Facebook is rolling out anti-revenge porn measures to the UK. In order that it can protect British users from failing victim to revenge porn, the social network is asking them to send in naked photos of themselves. The basic premise of the idea is: send us nudes, and we'll stop others from seeing them .

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  1. Who's Running This Company? by rutabagaman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm kind of shocked how tone deaf this is. If a company generally perceived as trustworthy asked the British to send them their nudes, there would be plenty of eyebrows raised. Now how trustworthy is facebook? In the UK?

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  2. Disingenuous Citation is Disingenuous by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You made the following explicit claim (emphasis added):

    The first one was when incels and Jordan Peterson demanded that women have sex with them to prevent mass murders.

    You provided the following links, neither of which mention Jordan Peterson:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    https://forward.com/schmooze/4...

    You mention 'Robin Hanson's blog' but did not provide any link. Assuming you meant the following link from one of the articles, it does not mention Jordan Peterson either:

    http://www.overcomingbias.com/...

    So you have not provided any citation where Jordan Peterson is even mentioned, let alone that he specifically "demanded that women have sex with them to prevent mass murders". Apparently your sources refer to "incels" for the first part of your claim, but the second part is unsubstantiated by the citations:

    Jordan Peterson demanded that women have sex with them to prevent mass murders.

    One could assert in a similar manner that "Donald Trump and PopeRatzo bragged about grabbing women by the pussy" and cite cnn.com with the same level of evidence you as what you had provided: i.e. absolutely none for the second party mentioned, who is never mentioned in any of the linked sources.

    So do you have any actual evidence -- specifically an unabridged direct quote of him for the full context -- that Jordan Peterson "demanded that women have sex with [him] to prevent mass murders"?