Telegram, which has gradually expanded its user base over the years with its privacy and security discourses, has turned into a big blackmail and concession place for women. A research and interviews conducted by the BBC reveal the seriousness of the situation.
The widespread use of social media and instant messaging applications, in addition to all the ‘entertainment’ and ‘convenience’ it brought to our lives, also created major problems. We can say that this list of problems is quite long, but one item in particular, destroying the lives of countless women and waiting for urgent solution.
Unauthorized dissemination of ‘inappropriate’ nude images of women or images of them having sex with their partners has been a major problem for years. These images are often viewed by an ‘angry spouse/ex-spouse or lover’. spreading for blackmail and harassmentThis irrational act is turning the lives of countless women upside down. Telegram is one of the platforms where this situation has been experienced the most recently.
Telegram has countless channels ‘exclusive to nude women’s photos’
A recent research and mini-documentary by the BBC on the subject, the gravity of the situation it reveals. According to the data obtained, there are thousands of Telegram channels whose sole purpose is to spread nude photos of women. Photos of women are published on these channels, which have tens of thousands of members.
Moreover, these photos are not the only thing shared about women. Blackmail and psychological violence As a part of this, many details, from the contact information of the women to the information of their families, are available on the channels.
Worse still, the platform also images of underage children information that it is also ‘sold’ in such groups. This is another big problem and such channels have unfortunately become the home of this terrible situation.
Women experience many problems because of this trauma they experience.
Unfortunately, the social and social impact of issues such as female sexuality and nudity is a huge problem even today. General morality and honor based on ‘women’ concepts such as a woman whose photograph is shared, despite being a victim, in the eyes of the society. ‘bad woman’ brings it into position. Those who commit crimes and try to exploit a woman with blackmail and violence are not even mentioned in the story.
Since society blames and excludes women instead of blaming those who spread these images, such situations cause women’s lives to be turned upside down, their psychology to deteriorate and all balances to be upset due to trauma. To the partner that a woman valued in her time sending ‘naked photos’ is immoral and shameful behaviorspreading the privacy of the person who trusts him in this way, almost applauded.
Another side of the problem is that women do not send, ‘secretly recorded’ images and photos. So much so that in some of the stories in the BBC’s video, the media in question is secretly filmed and spread by the spouses/lovers of the women. In this case, as you can imagine, it is women who are excluded again.
‘Pornographic content sharing’ is prohibited on Telegram, but the platform takes no action
Telegram is basically an instant messaging app, which means that some media on the platform are much more fast and unsupervised causing its spread. But essentially, sharing ‘pornographic’ content is prohibited on Telegram. However, according to the data obtained by the BBC, this article is not very ‘applied’.
So much so that the BBC complained during this research 100 unauthorized images of naked womencontinues to stay on the platform despite the passing months; No sanctions are applied to the channels. According to the BBC’s report, the employees in the team that Telegram established to review such content, the process is not working properly says it himself.
Unfortunately, the experiences of women who receive bad reactions from the society, especially from their family and social environment, when they experience such a problem an unsolvable problem seems to remain. Platforms need to work more sensitively in this regard and take measures to prevent such scenarios from the beginning. But whether this will happen, it is unfortunately impossible to know, and the landscape prevents us from being optimistic.
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