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Imagine falling in love with someone. You become intimate with that person, engage in activities normal couples do, sending nude selfies of each other, frequently fight and eventually broke up. One day, a friend tells you the most terrifying news – the nude selfies you sent to your ex are all over the internet. The angry ex either posted those photos or someone else hacked into your account. Isn’ t that the most embarrassing thing one has to face in the world of social media? So many people( famous or not) fell victims to the“ revenge porn”. Now, Google wants to help these victims remove these images that degrades them in the public eye.
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Revenge Porn,
Google Will Protect You
Rejoice, victims of“ revenge porn”. Help is on the way. by Alice Hernandez
G oogle, known to be very resistant in making changes in their search engine, will allow its users to remove“ revenge porn” from its search results. Amit Singhal, the company’ s senior vice president of search, informed everyone in his blog post about Google’ s stand in protecting victims of this malicious act:“ Our philosophy has always been that Search should reflect the whole web. But revenge porn images are intensely personal and emotionally damaging, and serve only to degrade the victims— predominantly women. So going forward, we’ ll honor requests from people to remove nude or sexually explicit images shared without their consent from
Google Search results.”
Victims can fill up a web form and submit it to Google as soon as it becomes available. Even though the company admits that it will not entirely solve these problems, this action is a small step towards making changes and protecting its victims – who are mostly women. These images are often uploaded in websites where anyone can post anything. Victims are required to pay lots of money in order to remove these photos from these websites. Other companies such as Facebook, Reddit and Twitter have already created policies where nude photos can’ t be posted without the consent of the person involved.
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