By contrast, EBAY is accosting, assaulting, raping, humiliating and degrading women every day RIGHT NOW, WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT, and for profit. So is PAYPAL.
Did you know EBAY has a "red light district?" They do. They have a secret "adult" section. Anyone registered with eBay can access it:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/Adult-Only-/319/i.html
"Revenge Porn" is alive and well in the ADULT area at eBay. Federal Law requires a signed model release of age and consent. EBAY ignores this, on items such as:
Aside from grabbing "revenge porn" pictures and scanning them, anyone can download stolen images off renegade websites and sell them on EBAY.
Does EBAY conform to Federal Law and demand a signed model release of age and consent on file for the photos being sold? Of course not. That's why any sleaze ball can grind stolen pictures through his printer and merely offer this line:
Anything about AGE AND CONSENT? No. That "ABOUT US" line is from John (an old perv in New Jersey). He simply offers "reproductions." No licensing. No permission. NO MODEL RELEASE OF AGE AND CONSENT. And that's just fine with EBAY.
How fine? He's been reported. Several celebrities have demanded he stop selling their Photoshopped images. EBAY shrugs and says, "He's a TOP RATED seller." How about TOP RAPER seller?
He currently sells over a thousand Photoshopped fake nudes he stole off the Internet, including pedophile pictures of Emma Watson. Like this:
Celebrities aren't the only prey. EBAY and PAYPAL allow any seller to sell just about ANYTHING without any statement about AGE AND CONSENT.
In other words, if a woman posed for her boyfriend or husband, she is NOT protected on EBAY if that person eventually decides to "get even" and start selling the images. This seller, like most, says the model is over 18, but doesn't say he obeys Federal Law and has a signed model release to prove it.
Where DID this guy get the photo? Did he take it himself? Does he have a model release? Here's what he writes:
In the REAL world, in the ETHICAL world that EBAY doesn't seem to care about, adult magazines, adult DVDs, and websites that offer memberships to view adult photos, all state compliance with Federal Law: "18 U.S.C § 2257 and 28 CFR Chapter 1, Part 75) All models are over 18 years of age. Records are available for inspection"
At this moment THIRTY different obscene photos of IVANKA TRUMP are for sale on EBAY. Should Ivanka Trump have to check Ebay's sneaky "Adults Only" area and find them and report them? That's EBAY's arrogance. They actually think so. They don't think it's a crime that these photos are being offered without a signed model release of age and consent.
The arrogance of giant Internet companies like EBAY is much worse than anything from Donald Trump. Can someone pick up a phone and get through to Trump's campaign? Is the name of Trump's publicist known? At EBAY, there's anonymity. Call up their San Jose executive office and you are disconnected if you don't already know the code-number of the person you are dialing. Try it: 408-376-7400. Call up their main support number 866-540-3229 and you get somebody from the Philippines, India or Asia telling you they will forward your question to somebody. They will not give you a follow-up number. They will not patch you through to anyone who is actually in the EBAY office in San Jose or Draper, Utah.
This is why we end up with a disgraceful situation that should have been remedied long ago. Women should not be abused on EBAY. Sexual images of celebrities should be banned. Any "housewife" or "sexy teen" photos should be sold only by accredited and approved sellers who are also the photographers and have the signed model releases on file. Pictures should NOT be offered with the caveat "sold collector to collector no rights implied" or other weasel terms.
It's the 21st Century. It's time that EBAY respects women and stops allowing offensive abuses. Do they allow harassment of female employees, too? Can a guy Photoshop a photo of a female employee and pass it around with a chuckle? What IS the limit at EBAY? And why does PAYPAL hide behind their own maze of anonymous people answering emails with form letters and answering the the phone with a vague "we'll look into it" and no accountability?
It shouldn't be up to a housewife to check through every photo on EBAY to make sure she's not being sold without her permission. It shouldn't be up to Emma Watson to file a takedown on photos such as these:
EBAY is a big company. Like any big company it is a bureaucracy. Executives sometimes are not aware of what is going on in every division.
DEVIN WENIG, CEO. MARIE OH HUBER, EXECUTIVE COUNSEL. This IS a problem. It needs to be addressed.
Please BAN the sale of celebrity nude images. It should not be up to Emma Watson or Selena Gomez or the estate of Annette Funicello to check out disgusting images and report them. Any fan should be able to report the item, and sellers should be suspended after multiple reports (which is not the case with JOHNSWELLSTUFF12, still going after a dozen offenses).
Women should have at least the safeguard that EBAY sellers are having to conform to FEDERAL LAW and state they have signed model releases of age and consent, AND CAN PRODUCE THEM IF RED-FLAGGED, and will accept SUSPENSION if they can't produce the documents.
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