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Australia's Department of Communications has found AU$4.8m to “go towards the development of a national online reporting tool to help counter the effects of non-consensual sharing of intimate images,” otherwise known as revenge porn. But the department doesn't know just how the money will be spent, or whether it will result in …

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  1. rtb61

    Buying The Porn?

    So what will the Australian Department of Communications do, make an offer for revenge porn amnesty by buying that porn and not publishing it?

    Revenge porn, pretty much means getting over it and not pretending you are something that you are not. At the end of the day revenge porn affects those the most who would victimise other people when their porn photos are shown.

    Don't want dirty photos of yourself out on the internet, do not allow them to be taken in the first place because reality is, exposure is just one hack away.

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    1. Faceless Man
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      Re: Buying The Porn?

      Because, of course, the alternative is that people behave like decent human beings and respect other people's privacy, and we all know that's too hard.

      Might as well argue that if you don't want to be robbed, you shouldn't have any possessions, because theft is just one break-in away.

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  2. Ted's Toy

    Public servants doing everything they know how to continue receiving a budget handout and a minister listing listening attentively to his so-called department chief so that he/she appears to Joe Blow that everyone knows that they are doing something., worthwhile or not. All for good p.r. and politics a plus for the public service even if it achieves nothing in the long run.

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  3. veti Silver badge

    "Beyond the Commission's reach"

    Isn't that what the Great Barrier Firewall, or whatever we're calling it this week, is for?

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