Google blocks revenge porn photos and videos: search results deleted

Google has decided to step in to protect victims of revenge porn. The phenomenon is rampant: more and more people, after a relationship or fling ends, upload photos or videos made during intimate moments with their ex-partner online. All of this happens without the other person’s consent, therefore it is a wrong and indeed a petty way to get revenge, aiming to dishonor and degrade the person depicted.
Some time ago, the staff ofTwitter also decided to completely ban revenge porn imagesand today similar news comes from Google’s headquarters.
The online search giant has indeed decided to remove from its immense index all sites and individual links based on the publication of material used for the purpose of revenge porn.
In the coming days, a form will be published and made available to indicate the presence online of one’s own nude images or explicit sexual content, published by someone without personal consent.
Starting from this report, therefore, the Google staff responsible for this sector will take action to remove the link in question from its search results.
Naturally, Google has no power to completely delete the images where they were posted: it will always be necessary to request their removal from the owner of the site where the photos or videos appear.

However, Google’s stance aims to provide a tool to at least partially help victims of revenge porn, as much as possible through the search engine’s own means; therefore, Big G’s goal is to make the incriminating images not easily traceable by removing them from its index.
This is undoubtedly an important first step taken to protect people who, against their will, end up online with the clear intention of having their reputation harmed.
For Google, this is a matter of sensitivity and, above all, of justice, an act of duty to alleviate the psychological and moral suffering of those who end up online as victims of revenge porn.