Facebook flooded with 'sextortion' and revenge porn, files reveal

International Weightlifting Federation?

Some problems run deeper than their individual manifestations such as these for which one may propose techie solutions -- here, sex ed is the only permanent solution. It's time to find ways to explain to boys that sex is an ordinary way to have fun and/or connect romantically between adult people, rather than a source or arena of power or status as it is endlessly portrayed in media.

So here's my thing: Imagine a world where facebook didn't exist. Would it have been impossible for this guy to get their photos and videos, post them on the internet?

I guess facebook does make it easier to email things to family and friends - but it only does so with the user's consent - you have the option to make your friends list private.

It seems to me like this guy is a real creep, and he should certainly be punished to the full extent of the law. But your friend also seems to have made a poor decision in allowing someone who is a creep to take very personal photos and videos of herself which could cause enormous humiliation.

The law should certainly step in to prevent stuff like this. But I question how much private companies should have to step in to protect people from their own bad decisions.

Yes facebook should certainly take effort to protect it's community standards and prevent porn and revenge porn as a part of it's duty to the community - but does facebook also have an affirmative duty to protect people from outcomes that are a result of their own poor life decisions? Does it owe an affirmative duty to your friend specifically to get rid of all revenge photos about her no matter whom she and how shares her nude or sexual photos? Or is there a duty on your friend to protect herself and exercise discretion in who she shares such content with?

Isn't there a duty on your friend to exercise discretion as to whom she sleeps with and whom she allows to take discreet photos and videos with. When she took these photos and videos, she knew there was a possibility that they may be used negatively, so does it negate her responsibility and become completely facebooks problem when those photos are abused by those who misuse their platform?

I mean imagine a case where this guy found her bosses and family's phone number and texted the image to her family? Does that then become AT&T's problem to go in there and clean up those images and moderate them?

The Guardian isn't a right-wing paper, it's left of center, and I can't remember when it last endorsed the tories. You'd be far more likely to see that kind of thing from The Telegraph or The Daily Mail.

There's another explanation much closer to home which doesn't involve Theresa May: The Guardian, like many other newspapers, is under intense pressure from Facebook which is eroding their direct traffic in favor of traffic coming from FB. They literally compete against each other for clicks and ad traffic.

Facebook disabling 14,000 accounts in a single month because of that kind of terrible behavior does show this is a serious problem. But it's still a very rare problem. Given Facebook has 1.19 billion monthly users, that's on the order of 1 in 100,000 accounts.