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by always_good 2953 days ago
Well, imagine how much revenge porn is being shared on Facebook and their other social networks because that's where the victim is.

You don't need global buy-in for it to be useful. Raising the barrier can be useful.

The bullies have to not just find another video host, but be bothered to actually do it.

Watching my friend's little brother wonder how to do anything out of the same three Android apps he uses daily, I've become convinced that Facebook's measure will be effective enough.

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I agree in principal with what you are saying. There are certainly cases inside of FB that this could help, assuming they are not just doing simple hashing.

In my opinion, I believe they should extend their service via an API or hash database that could be used by other sites to reduce some of the group raids on FB accounts and other social media sites to improve the effectiveness of this initiative. Imagine if CloudFlare were to uptake this database and show what sites were sharing a particular file, or even allow website admins to filter such images.