A Dropbox folder containing hundreds of explicit photos of female U.S. service members is currently circulating online, VICE News has learned. The women in the photos, some topless, others entirely nude, are largely identifiable and appear to be from all branches of the U.S military.
The folder is the latest example of an ongoing problem with revenge porn and online harassment in the U.S. military, one that persists even a year after the revelation of thousands of nude photos of service members shared in a Facebook group called Marines United caused a major scandal. VICE News reported in February on the existence of dozens of informal military social media groups where members continue to share nude photos and make derogatory comments about women, often alongside more banal posts about military life.
The new Dropbox folder, called “Hoes Hoin’,” contains 267 images in all and three subfolders named for specific women. Some photos show the women’s faces, others show their dog tags, others show their uniforms and name tags. The vast majority of the photos feature military clothing.
Some of the photos are selfies, others are clearly taken by another person. Some show women performing sexual acts. A few are of service members fully clothed, in apparent attempt to shame or discredit them. 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. [Vice News]
You can read more at the link, but according to the article many of the pictures are from the original Marines United webpage. What is not known if the people posting these pictures are even in the military. This may end up being a civilian law enforcement issue if the posters are non or ex-military. Regardless it is disgusting that people continue to do this.
“latest example of an ongoing problem with revenge porn and online harassment in the U.S. military”
Or rather the latest example of left-leaning hypocrites trying to make it out like this is a military thing and not just something in general.
Defenders of Women
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/business/media/vice-sexual-harassment.html
Beardy McFukface
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/02/575132902/vice-media-suspends-2-executives-after-allegations-of-harassment
“This may end up being a civilian law enforcement issue if the posters are non or ex-military.”
That depends. Where any parts of this occurred may determine if it’s a crime. It’s only a crime in 38 states so far. There was an effort to make it a federal crime last year but as far as I can tell it went no further than being introduced as a bill in the Senate.
Don’t want people to see your naked picture? Don’t take naked selfies or let others take pictures of you naked. End of problem. In today’s electronic medium driven world you have to assume once your image is captured by a device it is on the internet somewhere.
Once it’s on the Internet, it’s forever. Unless it could help someone.
Why can’t we get the pictures of Trump and the Prostitutes???
Maybe it only exists in some fevered beta-male’s imagination?