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FB has a no porn policy so wtf do you have verify you are you to get a revenge porn picture removed?

"We remove photographs of people displaying genitals or focusing in on fully exposed buttocks. We also restrict some images of female breasts if they include the nipple, but our intent is to allow images that are shared for medical or health purposes. We also allow photos of women actively engaged in breastfeeding or showing breasts with post-mastectomy scarring. We also allow photographs of paintings, sculptures, and other art that depicts nude figures. Restrictions on the display of sexual activity also apply to digitally created content unless the content is posted for educational, humorous, or satirical purposes. Explicit images of sexual intercourse are prohibited. Descriptions of sexual acts that go into vivid detail may also be removed." https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards#nudity

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It might prevent them from being sent in the first place. If it matches a fingerprint photo, the message stops. It's especially important in revenge porn scenarios where you don't want it seen by anyone, and even the short amount of time between report and take down can have a lot of views.

FB removes pornographic content, but it doesn't always do so proactively.

If a user shares pornographic content, it may be visible on the site for a short period of time before the content is removed by Facebook.

The goal of the initiative Facebook was attempting to implement was to prevent any revenge-porn photos from being shared on the website at all. Even for a brief period of time.

From a user's standpoint, one hour of pornographic content available is disturbing but not catastrophic. However, one hour of images of pornographic content of themselves being shown to their friends and family is catastrophic.

I find the concept quite strange.

It's kind of like having the police live at your house because 'just in case'.

I realize this is a late reply, but I just saw this today.

I think the idea isn't that this is a "just in case" service. More like, if someone sends you a message that they've got compromising photos of you and will release them unless you pay $XX,XXX then you would use the service.

In the analogy, it'd be more like having the police live at your house after having a credible threat made against your life. Which is a thing that happens

I've never been a revenge porn victim but I think you might oversimplify the problem. For instance, if a former lover of mine has nude photos of me and distributes them to other people in private channels, I'm not able to even see them to report them. And that's just a one-time stoppage of the harassment.

Fingerprinting a photo to detect copies is much easier than accurately classify what is and isn't 'pornographic' content.

Classification is a harder problem to begin with, and 'pornographic' is a subjective judgement.

This is for FB messenger, not FB posts. Messenger has no such rules for no pornography. Plus, this allows them to be proactive, rather than waiting for people to report posts.

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