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Facebook Asks British Users To Submit Their Nudes as Protection Against Revenge Porn (betanews.com)
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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I don't see how anything could go wrong with this plan!
Asking for nude photos to prevent nude photos from being posted is the second most audacious demand on the internet recently.
The first one was when incels and Jordan Peterson demanded that women have sex with them to prevent mass murders.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Just you wait until this time next year when everyone is shocked and outraged at these pics being leaked.
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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calculate the image hashes.
There are several libraries available to calculate image hashes that can be built into a desktop tool
For example: https://github.com/JohannesBuc...
All of you actually fell for this?
Bruce Perens.
Does this mean Facebook is a major revenge porn site? Cause the only way Facebook can prevent revenge porn disemination is, if they are the network where it actually happens.
So do I get this right: Facebook is a hotbed of (illegal) revenge porn sharing? And if so, why are they not suppressing that? Why is no AG suing their pants off for billions or give Zuck some much needed jailtime?
Facebook can and does prevent any publication of a picture with a nipple in their precious "timelines" and such, so they obviously can suppress the same nipples in any other picture that is shared via or travels through their servers. No more nudies from their captive sheep needed.
This sounds more like a "give us your embarassing pictures so we can better blackmail you" kinda thing.
Even if you can upload the image to them to "fingerprint" images are often cropped and converted to other image formats and recompressd which fucks that up. So unless they have some super AI that can detect that from a 2nd generation repost this wont work.
Just as a side note if some super porn sniffing AI can do this can I get access to it for purely scientific reasons.
Why do they want British nudes?
love is just extroverted narcissism
Finally the end game of Zuckerburg's master plan emerges. As with most males, it ended up being a convoluted plan to get terribly quality nude images of women from an internet awash with professionally photographed porn.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Probably because there isn't a "-1 Retarded" mod.
Come on people need to take responsibility for there actions .. if you don't want naked pictures of yourself then stop taking them.
Or use a camera that does not promptly upload its contents to the internet without asking. Or don't such things exist any more?
It's a troll because:
If you don't wanna get robbed, lock your doors.
If you don't wanna get murdered, don't piss anyone off.
If you don't wanna get raped, stop dressing like a whore
All those things still happen no matter if you do or do not. It's a bullshit argument tactic.
This is *not* intended as a general "send your nudes to Facebook and get them blocked" service. This is for a smaller group of people who have specific reason to believe that specific images are either likely to be circulated, or are already circulating in Facebook Messenger.
For people in this situation, sometimes, having a Facebook admin look at your nude pictures, while much less than ideal, is far less of a problem than letting those pictures circulate to people like your family, friends, and employer. Doing this, or threatening to do so, is a common technique of domestic abuse.
I agree with the critiques that it would be far, far better if you didn't have to send the image itself to Facebook to be hashed, but a) Facebook, not unreasonably, doesn't want the blocking service used for purposes other than that intended, b) the photo hashing technology is proprietary and they don't want it reverse-engineered if they can avoid it, and c) doing the hashing locally is going to create usability issues for users who are often not particularly technology-savvy.
I wouldn't for a minute suggest that this is a perfect system. But take your male middle-class tech geek glasses of for one fucking second and try listening to the people whom this system has been put in place to help.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
--Andy Finkel (J. Klass?)
It really takes a special snowflake to earn money and then get when people steal it. It must be more fun to get angry than to exercise good judgement and not have nice things in the first place.
Facebook already has all your nude photos. They're just making you submit your own copies for identity verification.
I think that's the idea. Nobody submits their photos because of how creepy/stupid this is. But when Facebook gets sued for helping distribute revenge porn, they tell the judge "Your Honor (or whatever they call them in the UK), we have a system in place designed to prevent exactly this type of incident from ever happening. But the victim refused to participate. Therefore the fault is entirely hers, not ours.
You made the following explicit claim (emphasis added):
You provided the following links, neither of which mention Jordan Peterson:
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:
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:
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"?
Exactly. That's the reason why they can roaam naked all day without fear of unexpected erections.