Twitter puts a brake on nude photos and revenge porn

Just a few days ago, we reported on news concerning the universe of Blogger: Google has decided to ban pornographic images on the blog platform.
Today, it is learned that a very similar proposal has also become a priority for the Twitter staff: explicit and nude images are being banned.
Not only that, but what Twitter seems to be targeting the most is actually the phenomenon of “revenge porn.”
This is an increasingly widespread trend aimed at taking revenge, precisely, on someone with whom one has been intimate. At the end of the relationship – evidently ended very badly – some people enact their online revenge, posting photos or videos depicting intimate moments on social networks, forums, and various sites.
On Twitter, this practice has unfortunately become widespread, especially by US users.
Twitter has therefore decided to protect the often unwitting victims of this improper behavior, by partially modifying its policy. In a recently updated paragraph, it states that it is forbidden to publish and share “photos or videos depicting intimate scenes obtained or distributed without the subject’s consent.”
To ensure that this rule is respected, a special control staff has been established, which will be operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Given the vastness of the platform, it would be impossible to have total control over the content posted, so the staff will act as soon as a report is received; this may concern not only the presence of inappropriate photos but also the appearance of tweets containing phone numbers, addresses, and personal and sensitive information.

In the event that a violation of the aforementioned regulation is actually found, the tweet will be removed or – in certain cases – the account will be suspended.
It will certainly be rather difficult to monitor the vast expanse of the social network, but this proposal is certainly a first step towards greater protection for those who – through no fault of their own – might find themselves online, depicted in risqué photos.