They seem to have the attitude, "Woman hating is ok." And "if somebody hacked your photos, or is making nasty Photoshop fakes on you, it's up to YOU to know we have a secret "adults only" section on the site, and you should spend hours every week looking through thousands of disgusting photos to see if some cretin is abusing YOU."
Is that the way it should be? It's strange that EBAY has "offensive materials" rules so that racism and religious bigotry can be easily reported. But misogyny? Even pedophilia? Use "report item" and send the complaint to "offensive materials" and too often NOTHING HAPPENS.
That includes THIS lot, up on the site today, October 2nd.
Pedophile faked images of the "Harry Potter" teen star Emma Watson? Of course...
Here's a double dose of chicanery: Jennifer Lawrence fought bitterly when her cellphone was hacked and her private pictures were thrown all over the net. It's not bad enough that dozens of websites posted the images for "shits and giggles." EBAY sellers post them TO MAKE MONEY, for themselves AND for EBAY and PAYPAL who take a percentage.
Here's a seller who not only downloaded a hacked photo and made it into an 8x10. This maniac claims it was SIGNED by Jennifer Lawrence. As if she was proud of this hacked photo and wanted an EBAY jerk to make $50 off it. (This seller has dozens upon dozens of Photoshop fake nudes ALL miraculously signed by the celebrities who are being abused!)
Though often hiding behind "we're just a venue," EBAY does shoot down many auctions when they THINK that something is wrong. If you post "one ounce of oregano, which has the same effect as marijuana," they will remove it. If you post "UN-used Panties, They Smell Terrific, Message Me for Details" the auction will be stopped on a "good faith belief" that it violates eBay rules. Why is it that THIS seller above, has been going for a year now, with obvious Photoshop fakes and hacked images?
For the same reason EBAY has a shabby record on stopping sellers who make screen captures of COPYRIGHTED MOVIES and TV SHOWS. The actresses were nude because the scene called for it, but sleazy EBAY sellers take that moment, and sell it with a voyeur prurience. How "legal" is it to take screen captures from a copyrighted film? NOT LEGAL AT ALL.
THIS seller has been on EBAY with at least 20 different aliases since 1999:
The seller has another alias for selling thousands of anonymous nude images — which could very well include hacked photos stolen off computers, and "revenge porn" posted by angry husbands and ex-boyfriends. It is against FEDERAL LAW to sell pornography without a signed model release of age and consent. This seller is doing just that. For 19 years now, he's never missed a day of bootlegging, because if he runs up stoppages under one identity, he's got another. EBAY claims they have sophisticated ways of making sure a seller can't use shills or the same computer or other computers to keep coming back. They CLAIM it, but this seller has proven over and over again that EBAY is not very concerned with protecting women and keeping a craven, woman-hating sociopath off their site.
Do they care that the women whose photos he is duping may not be aware they are being sold and their private images duplicated?
Sellers on EBAY should ONLY sell photos they themselves took as photographers. YouTube for example, has a rule that uploaders should NOT upload TV shows, movie clips, or music they do not own. They are developing ways for copyrighted material to be matched with uploads. EBAY allows sellers such as the above sociopath, to simply post thousands of anonymous images that he obviously didn't take, and for which he has NO MODEL RELEASE OF AGE AND CONSENT.
This is because EBAY has a bad attitude toward women.
Sellers should only be allowed to sell photos they took. They should sell magazines and DVDs that are from PROFESSIONAL companies who have the morality to make sure they COMPLY WITH FEDERAL LAW and state on their items, "models are over 18 and their signed model releases are on record." It is peculiar that porn companies and men's magazines actually show more respect for women than EBAY does.
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