不久前,我们发表了一篇关于“复仇色情(revenge porn)”日益严重的问题以及微软(Microsoft)如何帮助您对抗它的文章。我们谈论的是那些令人讨厌的 情况(situation s),其中有人在未经他们同意的情况下发布他们当前或前(女朋友)朋友的裸照或色情照片。虽然没有多少国家对如何处理这种情况有明确的法律,但一些大型科技公司已经开始将这个问题掌握在自己手中,并为您提供了与“报复色情(revenge porn)”这一令人讨厌的业务进行斗争的手段。谷歌(Google)是世界上最有影响力的公司之一,今天(world and today)我们来看看如何举报“复仇色情”(revenge porn)” 给他们,这样您的“私人文件”就不再在Google及其服务上公开:
当你成为“复仇色情(revenge porn)”的受害者时,谷歌能为你做什么?
当您向Google 举报未经您同意而在线分发的您的裸照(Google nude)或色情照片或视频时,Google 承诺将其从Google的搜索结果中删除。
与微软(Microsoft)的情况一样,谷歌(Google)也不能从托管它的网站上删除“复仇色情(revenge porn)”内容,而这些网站并不归谷歌(Google)所有。只有那些网站才能做到这一点,因此您将不得不分别联系每个网站。
从Google(Google)的搜索结果中删除您的裸照或色情照片或视频似乎还不够,但它肯定会有所帮助。虽然“复仇色情”内容可能仍托管在不同的网站或云服务上,但如果指向您的照片或视频的链接未显示在(revenge porn)Google的搜索结果中,则在网上找到它会困难得多。毕竟,谷歌搜索(Google search)引擎是世界上最大的,大量的人使用它在网络上查找信息。
如果您想阅读Google发布的官方博客文章(blog post),其中公布了他们关于“复仇色情(revenge porn)”的政策,请单击此链接:“复仇色情”和搜索("Revenge porn" and Search)。
如果您是“复仇色情(revenge porn)”受害者, Google不会为您做什么?
虽然谷歌(Google)从搜索结果中删除链接很好,但我们相信更坚定的回应会更好。到那时,我们正在考虑微软(Microsoft)如何处理这种情况。在处理“复仇色情(revenge porn)”时,微软(Microsoft)承诺不仅会从他们的Bing 搜索引擎中删除“(Bing search)复仇色情(revenge porn)”的搜索结果,如果发现其托管在他们的 OneDrive云服务(cloud service)上,也会删除实际内容。谷歌(Google)不这样做!
他们将从搜索结果中删除“复仇色情(revenge porn)”图像和视频,但如果该内容存储在Google Drive中,则内容本身不会被删除。这是我们认为谷歌(Google)应该考虑的一个领域。
如何向 Google 报告“复仇色情”
要向Google举报“复仇色情” ,您需要访问从 Google(Remove information from Google)网站删除信息。它应该类似于下面的屏幕截图(screen capture):
Google的网页(web page)提供了一些关于他们将如何处理您的内容删除请求(content removal request)的信息,以及一个您可以在其中输入请求详细信息的网络表单。
不幸的是,我们发现这个 Web 表单相当复杂。为了让事情变得更容易,您需要执行以下步骤才能完成它:
- 进入“从 Google(Remove information from Google)网络中删除信息”表单后,向下滚动并从“您想做什么?”中选择("What do you want to do?")“删除您在 Google 搜索中看到的信息”。("Remove information you see in Google Search")部分。
- 在“我要删除的信息是:”("The information I want removed is:")部分中,选择“在 Google 的搜索结果和网站上”("In Google's search results and on a website")。
- Google会询问您是否联系了托管您要删除的信息的网站的网站管理员。此 Web表单中的后续步骤取决于(form depend)您的选择。最常见的情况可能是您无法联系托管信息的网站,或者该网站的网站管理员没有回复您。选择最能描述您现在情况的选项。
- 当表单询问您要删除什么样的信息时,选择“我自己的照片”("a picture of myself")。
- Google现在会询问您要从其搜索结果中删除的图像或视频是否包含与您有关的裸露或露骨色情材料。由于您是“复仇色情(revenge porn)”的受害者,您应该回答“是”(Yes)。
- 接下来,您必须告诉Google图片和视频是否是在您同意的情况下在线分发的。如果他们没有,并且内容确实是“复仇色情(revenge porn)”,请选择否(No)。
谷歌(Google)现在知道你想从他们的搜索结果中删除什么样的内容。但是,网络表单并不完整,您的请求不会发送给Google,除非您还填写了您的个人详细信息和包含“复仇色情(revenge porn)”图像或视频的URL(URLs)(网页) 。
请注意,Google的表单还允许您添加一些“复仇色情(revenge porn)”网页的屏幕截图,以便他们更快地识别违规内容。(offending content)填写(Fill)所有这些详细信息,然后单击或点击最后的提交(Submit)按钮。
结论
“复仇色情(Revenge porn)”很糟糕,它对受害者的影响是毁灭性的,无论是在他们的私人生活中还是在他们的职业生涯中。事实上,在线发布此类图像或视频材料(image or video materials)的人设法实现了羞辱和羞辱受害者的目标。但它不必保持这种状态。如果您发现自己处于这种情况,您可以向谷歌和微软举报托管“(Google and Microsoft)复仇色情(revenge porn)”内容的网页。即便内容本身不会消失,但至少会更难被其他人找到。
How to report revenge porn to Google
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What can Google do for you when you are a victim of "revenge porn"?
When you report to Google nude or sexually explicit photos or videos of you, which are distributed online without your consent, the company promises to remove them from Google's search results.
As in Microsoft's case, Google also cannot remove "revenge porn" content from websites that host it and which are not owned by Google. Only those websites can do that, so you are going to have to contact each website, separately.
Removing nude or sexually explicit photos or videos of you from Google's search results might not seem enough, but it will surely help. While the "revenge porn" content might still be hosted on different websites or cloud services, it will be much harder to find it online if the links that lead to your photos or videos are not displayed in Google's search results. After all, the Google search engine is the largest in the world and a huge number of people use it to find information on the web.
If you'd like to read the official blog post published by Google in which they announce their policy regarding "revenge porn", click this link: "Revenge porn" and Search.
What Google doesn't do for you if you're a "revenge porn" victim?
Though it's nice that Google removes the links from their search results, we believe a more determined response would've been better. By that, we're thinking at how Microsoft handles the situation. When dealing with "revenge porn", Microsoft promises to remove not only the search results for "revenge porn" from their Bing search engine, but also remove the actual content if it's found to be hosted on their OneDrive cloud service. Google doesn't do that!
They will remove the "revenge porn" images and videos from their search results but, if that content is stored in Google Drive, the content itself will not be removed. This is an area that we believe Google should take into consideration.
How to report "revenge porn" to Google
To report "revenge porn" to Google, you'll need to go to the Remove information from Google website. It should look similar to the screen capture below:
Google's web page offers some information regarding the way in which they will handle your content removal request, as well as a web form in which you can enter the details of your request.
Unfortunately, we found this web form to be rather complicated. To make things easier, here are the steps you need to make in order to go through it:
- once you've landed on the Remove information from Google web form, scroll down and select the "Remove information you see in Google Search" from the "What do you want to do?" section.
- In the "The information I want removed is:" section, select "In Google's search results and on a website".
- Google will ask if you contacted the webmaster of the site hosting the information you want removed. The next steps in this web form depend on what you choose. The most common situation is probably when you either couldn't contact the website hosting the information, or the webmaster of that site didn't respond to you. Choose the option that best describes your situation right now.
- When the form asks you what kind of information you want to remove, select "a picture of myself".
- Google will now ask you if the images or videos you want removed from their search results contain nude or sexually explicit materials with you. As you're a victim of "revenge porn", you should answer Yes.
- Next, you must tell Google if the images and videos were distributed online with your consent. If they did not, and the content is indeed "revenge porn", choose No.
Google now knows what kind of content you want removed from their search results. However, the web form is not complete and your request will not be sent to Google until you also fill your personal details and the URLs (web pages) holding the "revenge porn" images or videos.
Note that Google's form also lets you add a few screenshots of the "revenge porn" web pages, so that they can identify the offending content faster. Fill in all these details, and click or tap the Submit button at the end.
Conclusion
"Revenge porn" is bad and its effect on its victims is devastating, both in their private lives and in their professional careers. As a matter of fact the one(s) that publish such image or video materials online manage to meet their goal of humiliating and shaming their victims. But it doesn't have to stay that way. If you find yourself in such a situation, you can report the web pages hosting the "revenge porn" content to Google and Microsoft. Even if the content itself will not disappear, it will be at least much more harder to find by other people .