Stanford CIS

Yik Yak Is Testing a Photo Feature. What Could Go Wrong?

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"“We have increasingly seen issues involving compromising sexually explicit images that are taken without people’s permission,” says Danielle Citron, author of the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace. “When the poster is anonymous it’s easy to see the mischief people can reap with this tool.”

“It’s not that putting up photos is a bad idea or going to chase advertisers away. It’s that they need strong community guidelines to prevent the posting of nude photos without permission,” she says. “Advertisers don’t want to be affiliated with destruction.”"

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