A few "don't worry, we'll take action" morons man the phone lines, wearing you down as they agree with you, hang up and then do NOTHING. A few others frankly challenge anything and everything you say, and parry any remark with "We don't discuss that" or "I can't forward this call to anyone else" or "You might want to write a letter and mail it to the main office.
MEANWHILE....
Pedophiles prosper.
The fact is that EBAY doesn't give a damn about Federal Law and whether there's a signed model release of age or consent. Revenge porn can be sold on eBay. "FOUND" and "AMATEUR" pictures are routinely sold:
Sellers don't even have to PRETEND their models are 18. They don't even have to say in their ads "models are of legal age and full information is on file." Ebay, "just a venue," claims they don't have to abide by the same laws that professional pornographers do, and have signed model releases on file.
The images above were not censored in eBay's sneaky "ADULTS ONLY" section. The fact is, people can spend all day trolling that area of eBay, never buy anything, and pull all kinds of obscene pictures onto their desktops for free.
The main area of eBay routinely offers thousands upon thousands of "nude male" gay interest full frontals, and "nude girl" images. Ebay says it's all fine with them, as long as it's in the "art" section. Graphic hardcore USUALLY goes into the"ADULS ONLY" section, but plenty of hardcore magazines, DVDs and photos don't get stopped because Ebay's "report item" link is such a joke.
Here's a seller who offers blatant images of underage boys, nude and embracing. How ADORABLE, says EBAY:
The image was reported to PAYPAL, who also supposedly has "Terms of Service" rules. Their rules prohibit material like this. A phone support person said, "This is a violation. Don't worry. We're gonna cut loose this seller within 48 hours." A WEEK LATER, and the item's still up. Another call to Paypal gets, "Sorry, we can't connect you with "Risk Management" and "Sorry, we can't connect you to the person you spoke with last week." And "Did you buy this? Was there a problem with the sale? We can't really discuss this unless you've made a purchase."
Paypal and Ebay have phone support people who are either completely stupid, or have been indoctrinated with Scientology-precision in evading all questions and giving NO answers.
Meanwhile, Ebay and Paypal take in money from anyone who wants to offer pornography. "Schoolgirl" headers involving porn are supposedly illegal on eBay, and a "report this" item has a specific category for ADULT/pedophilia, minors." Only whoever looks at this, is blind to items such as:
In the REAL WORLD of pornography, the companies scrupulously check the age of all women, check the drivers license, and insist the women pose with their drivers license and real name, and keep that information on file. They care about CONSENT, and want to make sure the women understand how the photos will be used. EBAY could care less. Paypal could care less.
ANY woman can find her images hacked and SOLD on EBAY using PAYPAL.
In fact, that's how EBAY and PAYPAL want it. They actually expect that women will be surfing all over the Net, know there's a secret "ADULTS ONLY" area of eBay, go through thousands of auction headers involving "FOUND" Polaroids and "AMATEUR GIRL" photos, and if they see themselves, send in a DMCA to have the item removed. Then do it all over again a week later when the seller puts it up again, changing the header title, or using another seller ID.
It's not just celebrities who are abused and humiliated, although THAT category is still rife with abuse. The two examples below? One is from a seller who has spent the past decade frolicking with DOZENS of new identities and is never inconvenienced for even a day when he actually gets suspended for multiple violations. The other seller has been humiliating women for over a year, with eBay phone support saying "Oh yes, we have a lot of violations. He will very shortly get a reprimand. His privileges may be revoked for a day or a week, or he might be restricted to selling only 500 images instead of 4,000." Gosh.
Yes, for over a year, this last seller has been getting away with pretending his faked-up photos are REAL, and selling them to people who are even more twisted than he is. Does eBay or Paypal care if a celebrity gets a stalker following her around showing her fake nudes and demanding sex? "We're JUST A VENUE..."
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