Revenge Porn, the posting of sexually explicit images to extract revenge on a former sexual partner, is set to be censored by Google according to a blog post made
revenge porn images are intensely personal and emotionally damaging, and serve only to degrade the victims—predominantly women. This is the reason being given for the policy decision.
Mr. Singhal states that Google will be creating an online form whereby victims of Revenge Porn can request that images be taken out of the Google Images search results.
Of course, Google is not able to take the actual Revenge Porn images off of the internet, because they are hosted on sites that Google does not control. However, the large majority of search users rely on Google for their search and image results and this would cut down on the ability of people to find these images using Google search.
revenge porn images are intensely personal and emotionally damaging, and serve only to degrade the victims—predominantly women. This is the reason being given for the policy decision.
Mr. Singhal states that Google will be creating an online form whereby victims of Revenge Porn can request that images be taken out of the Google Images search results.
Of course, Google is not able to take the actual Revenge Porn images off of the internet, because they are hosted on sites that Google does not control. However, the large majority of search users rely on Google for their search and image results and this would cut down on the ability of people to find these images using Google search.
