Porn Revenge And Sextortion Website Ban

Google has taken a strong stance against Porn Revenge (Revenge Porn) sites that humiliate ex-partners and sextortion websites that extort money for the removal of images.

Google will now honour removal requests by people to remove nude or sexually explicit images shared without the owners consent.

The web form to submit porn revenge image removals will only be available in weeks to come.

Amit Singhal – Google employee had the following to say about revenge porn in a blog posted 19 June 2015

Our philosophy has always been that search should reflect the whole web. But revenge porn images are intensely personal and emotionally damaging and serve only to degrade the victims predominantly women.

Google is unable to remove images from websites, they are only able to remove them from there server, the search results. But this won’t stop porn revenge due to websites linking to them and people redistributing the images throughout the web.

And don't forget to read the blog post by Google about revenge porn removal requests.

publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2015/06/revenge-porn-and-search.html

Porn Revenge Removal form

Porn Revenge Removal from Google will only remove your image or name from Google search results, and not from other search engines like Bing.

The removal request (if granted) will not remove your image from social sites or any other websites that have already aggregated your image (copied your image).

Google Revenge Porn removal request submission form

The only way to permanently remove a porn revenge image from all sites and all search engines is to take legal action against the sites that host the content. A judge will then force the hosting company to remove the content. Google has no control or authority over hosting companies, they only have control over their own search results.