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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Well said.
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?
This is the modern version of playing doctor, basically. It seems bizarre to us but these young adults have grown up with screens their entire lives. The online world and real world are basically one and the same to them. Their online “friends” are not total strangers in their minds.
“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.”
So true. The acceptance of almost any kind of behavior by kids and young adults has seen them let down any common sense barriers to their own privacy. It’s “anything goes”, and if there are negative consequences then they are the victim, and therefore blameless. Afterall, personal responsibility is now so out of fashion.
Are you talking about Traitor Joe in the WH?
Maybe if these women weren’t so freely sharing the photos themselves, they wouldn’t be out there.
POST OF THE DAY and so true.
His former boss certainly seemed like a Manchurian Candidate.
A Kenyan Candidate.
Yeah.
Mama mia!
The BBC is running cover for pornography and prostitution.
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