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One upside of this is that the nonconsensual "revenge porn" that used to plague many victims is sometimes actually disappearing from the Internet for good. I ha
by spoonjim 5y ago
One upside of this is that the nonconsensual "revenge porn" that used to plague many victims is sometimes actually disappearing from the Internet for good. I had a friend whose ex-boyfriend uploaded a consensually filmed video in the early 2000s of her giving him oral sex, with her real name, onto porn sites. She went the police and they said they couldn't do anything. She would file takedowns with the sites and the video would always pop back up later. It wasn't the ex-boyfriend doing it because he was in jail for some of that time. Online trolls sent the video to her parents, to her employers, and to her friends. It seemed like she would never get away from this video, but in recent years it seems to have actually disappeared. It doesn't pop back up. Hasn't for a long time, and even if it does again, it's been some good years of relief for her.