Ebay, as they say, is a "work in progress."
One day, CEO Devin Wenig and his brain trust will gather around the meeting table and say, "You know what? Breaking FEDERAL LAW could get us in trouble. Celebrities may stop doing charity auctions on our site. Making dangerous psychotic pedophiles "happy" isn't worth the fifty cents we make on some jerk's Emma Watson fake photo."
One day, CEO Devin Wenig will mandate: "Our drop down menu will not only say "offensive materials" includes KKK photos and NAZI memorabilia and photos of dogs being abused or autopsy photos of loved ones...but NUDE PHOTOS IN THE ADULT SECTION that have NO SIGNED MODEL RELEASE OF AGE OR CONSENT. Including CELEBRITY IMAGES."
Add to that: "We will NOT give sellers five warnings, a 1-day restriction, a 3-day restriction, a 7-day restriction, a 30 day suspension, and more and more suspensions while perverted sick woman-haters keep coming back with 100's of illegal nude images to sell."
Add to that: "We will NOT let SUPPA or anyone else keep coming back on our site with new names."
Meanwhile:
Is this unreal?
HEATHER LOCKLEAR, currently having deep mental problems, is one of hundreds of women being pimped for a lousy $3.29 by some creepy sexual predator in NEW JERSEY
This dirtbag woman-hater ugly misshapen freak of a sub-human gets his kicks by degrading and humiliating women. He makes his beer money and he's HAPPY. Not only is he HAPPY, but he has twisted freak bidders who are so HAPPY, too. Can you imagine being HAPPY to own a sick and obvious Photoshop fake like this?
The FBI and CIA should be knocking on eBAY's door with subpoenas, to find out who is HAPPY to acquire pornography, including PEDOPHILIA, on women who have NOT consented and are completely UNAWARE they are being stalked and abused with Photoshopped images and stolen images and revenge porn.
Celebrities aren't the only women being SOLD in eBay's nefarious ADULTS ONLY area. But celebrities are high profile. Their home addresses can easily be found. The guy who is HAPPY to get fake nudes might also be HAPPY to murder one of the women in a photo he bought. Remember what happened to REBCCA SCHAEFER...Murdered by a FAN who stalked her.
This shit is DANGEROUS. The people who PAY for these images, and the obsessed lunatics who waste their lives cranking these photos through a printer for $3.29 are sick, evil and hideous people who have a potential to be VIOLENT.
Ebay's excuses for allowing this could fill several tables at a WAFFLE house.
The waffling includes: "We're very busy and we get lots of complaints" and "if women find something objectionable on their intellectual property they, and only they, should report it" and "we like to give sellers reasonable chances to sell legitimate material" and "sometimes we have no idea the seller is back" and "well, we technically need to be told if a seller has no permission."
And lots more. All of it is CRAP.
EBAY is EBAY. NO competition. HUGE site. Their "Terms of Service" that every bidder and seller must electronically sign, includes a line that they can suspend anyone at any time for any reason.
There is a FEDERAL LAW against selling pornography without a model release. Ebay flaunts it. Is there a law against selling Nazi memorabilia or KKK memorabilia or an autopsy photo? Will the Post Office refuse to deliver these things? EBAY chooses what THEY find "offensive materials." They just don't choose to find naked photos of women sold without consent to be "offensive."
Too often it takes a lot of reports and complaints...often from reps for the actresses...before these losers get suspended permanently. As of a few days ago AWESOMEPHOTOS had all his hundreds of fake nudes removed. So far, that's been a "restriction" but the account doesn't yet say "NOT A REGISTERED USER."
That includes items such as THIS:
An irony here is that ASHLEY JUDD continues to be ALL TALK and NO ACTION.
On her Twitter page, PINNED no less, is her shout about "how online abuse of women has spiraled out of control."
What's she done about it? So far, no Tweet saying: "I now have a VERO rep to protect me from abusive fake nudes on EBAY, and what's more, I've instructed my MANAGER and my AGENT to VeRO rep ALL clients so that a seller can be bombarded with complaints and SUSPENDED."
What's the problem, Ashley Judd?
How do you stop "REVENGE PORN?"
It should be EASY on EBAY: insist that only professionally made porn is allowed. That means the magazines and DVDs from companies that COMPLY WITH FEDERAL LAW and have a SIGNED DOCUMENT OF AGE AND CONSENT ON FILE.
Do THESE two eBay sellers say they comply? NO, THEY DO NOT. They pretend to have "found" pictures of naked women and so they decide they'll sell them WITHOUT CONSENT. They take "Revenge Porn" off the Internet, download it, grind it through a printer on photo paper, and don't care who they embarrass and humiliate.
"I took the photo" isn't the same as "I have a signed model release." "Found" photo isn't the same as AUTHORIZED.
Ebay has, ever since it arrived, played the game of letting parasites copy off any photo they please. They make dupes of copyrighted images, of celebrity photos, and then it's up to the copyright owner to spend hours a week checking eBay for violations and submitting a DMCA. Celebrities often have to pay "Grayzone" and "Web Sheriff" outfits hundreds of dollars to protect themselves from Photoshop fakes that insane fans think are real. "Hey here's this spread shot of you, please sign it..." or "I saw you do it with a bunch of guys in a photo somebody was selling on eBay. I know where you live and I will be coming over. You will do it with me or else..."
EBAY should not be encouraging stalking, invasion of privacy, or REBECCA SCHAEFFER tragedies. Who was Rebecca Schaeffer? She was on the CBS sitcom "My Sister Sam" and she was SHOT and KILLED by "a fan who had been stalking her." That quote is from Wikipedia: "a fan who had been stalking her."
Ebay's reckless allowance of Photoshop fakes on celebrities, and "girlfriend" and revenge porn on ANY AND EVERY WOMAN....must STOP. It shouldn't be up to you, your mother, somebody's wife, somebody's sister to check EBAY, of all places, to see if somebody is faking a nude picture or selling something stolen or otherwise unauthorized.
EBAY needs to have a simple rule: if it's NOT professionally made, it's NOT ALLOWED. The irony is that EBAY has a half-assed rule against amateur VIDEOS (not photos) and against "voyeur" and "upskirt" iimages, but not junk like the two items below.
The mark of a SEXUAL PREDATOR is a sociopathic hatred.
The Rapist is not about gratification, but ABUSE. MISOGYNY. CONTROL. HUMILIATION.
This sickness knows NO boundaries of AGE. The female victim can be 8 or 80. The DEAD are not immune. Women already wounded are victims AGAIN.
On EBAY, which supposedly no longer allows violations of FEDERAL LAW, and the sale of amateur videos and photos that have NO model release of AGE or CONSENT on file, CONTINUES to allow sellers to be SEXUAL PREDATORS.
You'd think that after a seller has been reported, EBAY would do the right thing. But AWESOMEPHOTOS, a sick predator in Louisiana is STILL on the site, and STILL targeting EVERY woman.
PRINCESS DIANA. DEAD. Still a target, as is Carrie Fisher.
EMMA WATSON. Underage Photoshop jobs. PEDOPHILE PORN. Still a target.
ACTRESSES AND SINGERS OF ALL TYPES...ALL OF THEM VICTIMS.
Monica Lewinsky, considered by some to be a martyr in the #METOO movement, still the subject of lewd humiliation. ALL of the items below, and HUNDREDS MORE, are on EBAY right now, JULY 5th, being sold by AWESOMEPHOTOS.
It is incredible that this is happening. EBAY, which has indeed suspended many sellers, has allowed THIS one to keep going beyond ANY LOGIC. Is this just another example of an arrogant, powerful Internet company refusing to do the right thing because IT doesn't want to be BULLIED?
"Report Item" isn't enough? Saying PLEASE isn't enough? Actresses sending in DMCA's isn't enough? Why do faceless INTERNET GIANTS act with such cruelty and disdain? WHY, when the world should be saying NEVER AGAIN to a Harvey Weinstein, and some companies fire people who have merely been ACCUSED of inappropriate touching, EBAY doesn't instantly act on a seller who does NOTHING but offer obnoxious PHOTOSHOP FAKES?
What is the point here? It's a RAPIST'S ATTITUDE of hatred and degradation. The idea isn't to arouse, it's to make fun of Princess Diana and Kathy Lee Gifford, and to turn international famous and rich women such as Emma Watson into meek, ridiculous sexual slaves and sluts...all for the fantasy of SEXUAL PREDATORS, SICK PEOPLE and DERANGED WOMAN HATERS.
Will EBAY'S DEVIN WENIG face the CAMERAS and say "I will NO LONGER ALLOW THIS on my watch?" Will be wait to be PROSECUTED LIKE KIM DOTCOM? Why is it that companies such as Google who profess to "do no harm" and strive to make the world better by technology, FAIL so miserably? Why is it that a helpful, prosperous, GIANT company like EBAY wants to protect somebody who degrades women?
FACE IT, if this seller did this kind of things to BLACKS or MUSLIMS, he'd be GONE instantly. EBAY has a specific rule against using slurs against racial and religious groups...but WOMEN deserve protection too.
