With the increased public discussion on revenge pornography, Google announced last week that will start pulling revenge porn sites from Search. This comes as several states have implemented revenge pron laws.
“Revenge porn” refers to a former partner hoping to damage a person’s reputation and life by posting sexually explicit images publicly online. Many cases even involve “sextortion,” in which the ex-partner will request money in order to take down the photos. Most victims are women.
“So going forward, we’ll honor requests from people to remove nude or sexually explicit images shared without their consent from Google Search results,” Google Search SVP Amit Singhal wrote in a statement. “This is a narrow and limited policy, similar to how we treat removal requests for other highly sensitive personal information, such as bank account numbers and signatures, that may surface in our search results.”
Singhal wrote that Google will post a form that victims can use to request that a site be taken down in the next few weeks.
“We know this won’t solve the problem of revenge porn—we aren’t able, of course, to remove these images from the websites themselves—but we hope that honoring people’s requests to remove such imagery from our search results can help,” Singhal wrote.
According to EndRevengePorn.org, just 23 states have revenge porn laws, including California, Colorado, Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Maryland and Texas. The first man convicted on revenge porn charges in California received a year in prison.
In March, Twitter also banned revenge porn from the social network.
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