- “Facebook has lost its bid to stop a lawsuit by a 14-year old girl whose naked photo appeared on the platform. The girl, who cannot be named because of her age, is suing Facebook (FB, Tech30) and the man who repeatedly posted her photo on the social network. A judge in Belfast, Northern Ireland, rejected Facebook’s request to dismiss the case on Monday, meaning it will now go to a full trial.” VB note: Facebook is lightning-fast to punish and ban “Napalm Girl” as well as people like me for posting links to sites like TinyNibbles, but if someone’s actually being harmed by something …
* Facebook loses bid to stop revenge porn lawsuit by 14-year old girl (CNN Money)
- “A hacker who uncovered evidence that two men who sexually assaulted and photographed an unconscious 16-year-old girl in Steubenville, Ohio, two years ago could spend more than a decade longer in jail than the rapists he helped expose and convict, thanks to an outdated cybersecurity law.”
* Why a Hacker Who Exposed Rapists Faces More Jail Than the Rapists (Inverse)
- “[New York] City Councilmembers will introduce a bill this week that would make revenge porn a crime, punishable by a $1,000 fine and up to a year in jail.”
* NYC May Make Revenge Porn A Crime (Gothamist)
- “After [the] unveiling of the new water-resistant, headphone jack-free iPhone 7, Apple kicked off an ad campaign with the phrase “This is 7,” apparently not knowing that directly translating that to Cantonese basically means “This is penis” or “dick” in slang. ”
* Apple’s ‘This Is 7’ Ad Campaign Translates As ‘This Is Penis’ In Cantonese, Causing Much Laughter In China (SFist)
- “In the study published in the journal BMJ Open, researchers pored over 55 qualitative studies that examined the views of young people — mostly ages 12 to 18 — who’d received sex-and-relationship education at school in the U.S., UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Iran, Brazil and Sweden between 1990 and 2015. … The problems, researchers found, were numerous.”
* Sex Education Is Negative, Sexist and Out of Touch: Study (TIME)
- “… But I was also curious about Waldman’s plans — what was she hoping to gain by introducing porn to her teenage daughter? “If kids are going to be looking at porn anyway,” she told me when we spoke on the phone, “it would be good to know that there’s porn that isn’t just not sexist — I think that’s partly the issue—but that is not replete with destructive misinformation and misconceptions that current pornography [reinforces].””
* Why Isn’t Pornography Part Of Sex Education For Teens? (Alternet)
- “The Flex Company, on a mission to improve feminine hygiene products, is gaining ground. The company, which sells Flex, a menstrual aid that can be worn during sex, recently raised $1 million and acquired its rival company, Softcup.”
* Menstrual Disc That Can Be Worn During Sex Receives $1M (Future of Sex)
- “Four senior executives of Chinese streaming media service QVOD Technology Co. were sentenced today to more than three years in prison for hosting, streaming and profiting from pornography, according to the Shanghai Daily.”
* China Jails 4 Internet Execs for Distributing Porn (XBIZ)
Main post image via Cora Keegan by Jared Thomas Kocka MQ Photo Shoot (In The Raw)
