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London-based startup Linq has raised $1.1 million in pre-seed funding for its platform designed to give users control over their intimate images and help combat revenge porn and "sextortion" scams. Founded in 2024, Linq has developed an app that uses AI technology typically deployed to prevent media piracy, allowing users to grant and revoke access
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No, it's not different at all. Plenty of people see porn as "manipulating people's persectives to harm"; in fact Apple is doing it almost precisely because that's the mainstream opinion.
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The app also uses facial recognition technology to prevent someone other than the intended recipient seeing intimate images.
The forced global adoption of puritanistic American cultural norms vis sexuality and nudity via app store/payment processor rules is one of the least-discussed free speech issues of the last decade and this lack of attention is going to hurt online expression so much in the years to come.
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I think also we cannot ignore the potential social and cultural ramifications of normalizing the demonification of anything adult or sexual The whole system is stacked against any sort of movement in the other direction and it's not something the porn industry can handle alone at this point
