If we find a violation, we take down the content and, when appropriate, take other measures such as banning the content and/or reporting to law enforcement.Last Saturday, the California-based Center for Investigative Reporting revealed that a Facebook group, Marines United, had been distributing nude photos of servicewomen for some time. 'As always, we investigate reports of content that violate our Acceptable Use Policy. 'This link has been taken down and banned so it cannot be recirculated on Dropbox,' the spokesperson said. Finally, some photos are crude collages showing a fully clothed service member in uniform on one side and a nude photo of the same woman on the other.įacebook has since shut down the closed (and exclusively male) group in which the link to the Dropbox folder first appeared - called 'Blame Marines United (Non-Butthurt Edition),' and a Dropbox spokesperson told the Cut that the link has been removed.

A few are of service members fully clothed, in apparent attempt to shame or discredit them. Some of the photos are selfies, others are clearly taken by another person. military members, called 'Hoes Hoin,' has been making the rounds. Vice reports that a Dropbox folder containing hundreds of explicit photos of female U.S. It seems though that neither official threat of punishment nor sincere requests for the end of mistreatment could stop some military men from sharing nude photos of their female fellow service members. Marine and Navy laws being updated to specifically ban revenge porn, and to nearly 100 female Marine Corps veterans signing an open letter calling for the end of misogyny in the Corps. Last year, the Defense Department had to investigate members of a now-closed Facebook group (called 'Marines United') for sharing nude photos of active female military members (the nude image sharers reportedly started a new group once the first one was discovered, as harassing their female counterparts seemed a temptation too great to resist). Revenge porn has been a pervasive issue in the U.S.

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