Behind the Screen: How Platform-Specific Policy Affects Consumer Behaviour of Non-Consensual Pornography
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- 1. Behind the Screen How Platform-Specific Policy affects Consumer Behaviour of Non-Consensual Pornography L I L L I A N S. R I G L I N G North Carolina State University Libraries A M E L I A C L A R K S O N University of Toronto
- 9. Legal Journals Criminalizing Revenge Porn: ● Harassment defense ● The copyright defense ● Right to be forgotten defense Scholarly Literature ● Who is posting this content? ● Why?
- 10. How do users interact with nonconsensual pornographic content? ?
- 11. Methods ● 20 Posts* from MyEX.com (November 2015) ● 20 photo posts from non-consensual porn subreddits (November 2015) ○ 10 from OnOff ○ 10 from PhotoPlunder ● Policy documents from Reddit & MyEX.com (November 2015) *photos of men were excluded from the study
- 12. MyEx.com ● No user accounts or peer-to-peer interaction ● All content passed through a moderator ● Actively encourages users to include personal, identifying information
- 13. MyEx.com ● “Doxxing”: 18 of 20 posts ○ Phone number, social media accounts, addresses ● Violent language: 75% of posts ○ Sexual violence ○ Physical violence ● Racial slurs ● Underage content
- 14. Reddit ● Has a reputation for being lenient with offensive content ○ Content of Subreddits controlled largely by users though the site does have some posting guidelines and Reddiquette ● Surprisingly difficult to find conventional revenge porn ○ Found-images without identifying information or harassment ● New behaviour: self-policing ○ Perhaps thanks to new Privacy Policy
- 15. Finding One: Community Interaction MyEx: Yelling into the Void Reddit: Reddiquette as community standard
- 16. Finding One: Community Interaction MyEx.com: Highlighting unintended exposure Reddit: Users calling each other out for not following community guidelines
- 17. Finding Two: Relationship between poster and subject ● no personal relationship between photo subject and poster ● no captions with stories of betrayal ● little or no commentary calling for vengeful action against deserving “sluts” ● community based on appreciation of photos of anonymous, scantily-clad women Reddit
- 18. Finding Two: Relationship between poster and subject Expected behaviour from literature: a community providing validation and acceptance Actual behaviour: ridicule and shame by association MyEx.com
- 19. Finding Three: Community Ethical Guidelines Reddit ● Ethical guidelines driven by the community, what users feel uncomfortable with ● Consumption without intent to harm deemed ethical MyEx.com ● Moderators control posting and removal ● Ethical guidelines driven by legality ● Potential for extortion
- 20. Finding Three: What Right? Reddit ● Right of the subject ● Respect for subject’s right to privacy MyEx.com ● Right of the consumer ● Aggressively defends right to consume
- 21. Questions? ?