It's about ending degrading, humiliating sexual abuse. It's about treating women fairly. Ebay has "offensive materials" rules...but doesn't find ABUSING WOMEN offensive.
What do they find offensive? THIS they do NOT find OFFENSIVE: Cutting the heads of famous women and Photoshopping them onto porn images, and even suggesting these things are real:
The cheap, nasty seller if this garbage, who pimps and degrades famous women to get a lousy $4, has been warned a few times because managers/agents for some stars have sent in DMCA's.
Obviously it hasn't been enough to get EBAY to SUSPEND this seller. EBAY phone support routinely says, "Oh, this is offensive, this is against our rules." But this is some hapless woman in Asia who can only "forward this to Trust and Safety" or "it will go to Risk Management." And that's where the buck goes down the toilet, and whoever is in charge shrugs and says "so what. Let these women be abused. They're famous. They deserve it." Something like that.
WORSE, eBay also allows HACKED and STOLEN pictures. We all know that Jennifer Lawrence's photos were stolen. EBAY, "just a venue" pretends otherwise. They don't ask a seller to show a signed model release of age and consent, or an agreement with Lawrence.
The common sense they use in removing a photo of KKK Klansmen pointing to a black man hanging from a tree...they don't apply to abuses of women. The images here have been censored because, unlike the Photoshop fakes, these are real:
These things should not be sold by some sociopathic pinhead who wants $4 (after Paypal and EBAY take their cuts, and the fun of being a pimp and selling garbage to potentially dangerous stalkers.
EBAY NEEDS TO BAN PHOTOSHOP IMAGES OF CELEBRITIES, HACKED IMAGES OF CELEBRITIES, and NOT EXPECT CELEBRITIES TO KNOW ABOUT THEIR SECRET "ADULTS ONLY" PART OF THE WEBSITE AND FIND THIS JUNK AND SEND IN A DMCA.
It's not just celebrities that are being abused. ANY woman who ever took a selfie might find that image being SOLD ON EBAY. EBAY does NOT COMPLY with FEDERAL LAW which requires sellers to have SIGNED MODEL RELEASES OF AGE AND CONSENT. For example:
NOTHING in the ad suggests there's a "signed model release on file" (which is a statement you find on the editorial page of every sex magazine, on the box cover of every DVD, and on every adult website).
EBAY is irresponsibly NOT making sure that sellers who grind photos through their printers, or spend all day drooling over them in a darkroom, can provide, under penalty of perjury, a signed model release for their items.
EBAY is strangely silent on the issue of WOMEN'S RIGHTS.
After Peter Braunstein assaulted a co-worker he barely even knew, and led police on a manhunt for weeks, EBAY changed their policy on selling CHLOROFORM on their site. He had bought some on EBAY, as well as a real fireman's badge and uniform, rope and sexual toys, for his night of terror.
Somehow, EBAY does have rules about what is "offensive." It just doesn't apply to ANY of the ABOVE.
Here's what EBAY finds offensive:
Really? "Sexual intolerance" can't be defined as allowing women their PRIVACY? THEIR DIGNITY? Anyone famous, from Hillary Clinton to Melania Trump gets defiled by their sexuality and not their politics? Any female star, especially ones who NEVER appeared nude (TAYLOR SWIFT, EMMA WATSON) has to be degraded because a few men are misogynists? Haters? Jealous and sadistic sociopaths?
EBAY has enough sense to ban a lot of items (prescription drugs, lock picking equipment, digital download versions of books, used underwear) but doesn't have "bots" to enforce all of it. They rely on people to see things and use the "report item" link on the auction. Often, the item isn't stopped because "we have millions of items every day and can't get to them all. Feel free to report it again." But to not even have an "offensive materials" or "adult: not allowed" category that specifically bans the abusive images above? WHO IS RUNNING EBAY?
Here's some of the "offensive materials" eBay will stop...usually within 24 or 48 hours:
Shouldn't hacked photos, unlicensed amateur photos, and Photoshop fakes be banned? Aren't they in violation of FEDERAL LAW?
Elsewhere on this site, you'll find entries that show some of the other awful images sellers have profited from offering on EBAY, as well as the exact FEDERAL LAW that requires MODEL RELEASES, and which EBAY IGNORES.
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