Posted on 08/21/2022 9:04:56 PM PDT by RandFan
Women are facing threats and blackmail from a mob of anonymous strangers after their personal details, intimate photos and videos were shared on the social media platform Reddit. The BBC has unmasked the man behind one of the groups, thanks to a second-hand cigarette lighter.
"£5 for her nudes, DM me."
"I've got some of her vids looking to trade."
"What are we gonna do to her?"
I felt sick as I scrolled through the images and comments online.
There were thousands of photographs. A seemingly endless stream of naked or partially dressed women. Underneath, men were posting vicious commentary about the women, including rape threats. Much of what I saw was too explicit to share here.
A tip-off from a friend had brought me to these images. One of her pictures had been lifted from Instagram and posted on Reddit. It was not a nude but was still accompanied by sexual and degrading language. She was concerned for herself and other women.
What I found was a marketplace. Hundreds of anonymous profiles were dedicated to sharing, trading and selling explicit images - and it all appeared to be without the permission of the women pictured.
It seemed like a new evolution of so-called revenge porn, where private sexual material is published online without consent, often by embittered ex-partners.
Not only were these intimate images being shared for an audience of thousands, but men - lurking behind the mask of anonymity - were teaming up to expose the real-life identities of these women, a practice known as doxing.
Addresses, phone numbers and social media handles were being swapped online - the women then being targeted with lurid sexual comments, threats and blackmail.
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Hmm. This is so perplexing. How can women stop this from happening to them?
I’m just more and more disgusted with this world every day.
A world that has rejected Jesus Christ is utterly depraved.
I had no idea something this seedy was going on.
Blame Al Gore for inventing the Internet.
It’s easier to keep nudes off your phone than to delete them from the internet.
Dang!!
If this trend continues Playboy will go out of business. LOL
Let me guess…🙄
Anyone posting their suggestive photos on the internet should expect perverts to respond.
That’s not the culture we’re in. Younger people don’t have the concept and concerns over privacy that past generations developed. They are all about sharing everything however banal. They also have different concepts of customer service which is why we are forced into online shopping, must accept entirely automated “help” and self checkouts.
Seems like a possibility.
The further from God the closer to the Devil.
If only there was a way for women to not let this happen, huh? It’s a mystery how to prevent this, isn’t it?
“How can women stop this from happening to them?”
Um, I think that part’s easy.
The big question is, who the hell is stupid enough to pay for nudes?
Teach them how invulnerable and strong they are. Teach them to flaunt their seductiveness. Teach them to display their pulchritude to a whole world of strangers. That should assuage their fears of being abused.
I was amazed to see what teen aged American girls would send GI’s in Afghanistan they had never met except over the net.
Could their parents be ok with their daughter displaying her vagina to total strangers?
Unfortunately most younger women are the unhappy slutty results of the feminist sexual revolution. You’ve come a long way baby!
In most cases probably not.
But I’m getting old so I may be giving today’s parents too much credit.
The cruelties of grade school and high school cliques have been amplified by social media. Just existing on those things makes you a toxic narcissistic bully. They are all 4chan insel trolls in their cold black hearts while believing they are really enlightened, loving and diverse.
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