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Facebook’s Sexual Solicitation Policy is a Honeypot for Trolls

December 6, 2018

Facebook just quietly adopted a policy that could push thousands of innocent people off of the platform. The new “sexual solicitation” rules forbid pornography and other explicit sexual content (which was already functionally banned under a different statute), but they don’t stop there: they also ban “implicit sexual solicitation”including the use of sexual slang, the solicitation of nude images, discussion of “sexual partner preference,” and even expressing interest in sex. From EFF

Topic, claim, or defense
Child Protection (Includes Child Pornography)
Freedom of Expression