Who curates the list? More generally I don’t believe the burden to handle this should be on the shoulders of the victims.
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I agree in principal, but in the real world it seldom works out that way unfortunatly which is why we have security alarms, anti-virus software, mace spray, tasers, identity theft protection, pin numbers, etc. Figuring out how to get the lowest common denominator to stop any action is a much more difficult nut to crack then implementing victim protection alas.
Really?
When you have heard three maids in a hotel discussing the relevant parameters of their boyfriends under the impression that you are monoglot English and Spanish is safe, you will realise it is unsafe to make generalisations about women.
If you mean that in general women have a different visual vocabulary of sexual arousal from men, I can agree with that. And, without pretending to any scientific accuracy, I feel it’s important that female genitals are basically an invitation while male genitals are in the nature of a response. The messages are very different. Sending a response before a request is a solecism in social life as well as in HTTP.
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“OMG, thank you person I don’t know for sending me an unsolicited picture of your penis! I wasn’t interested before, but I’m totally DTF now!”
Said no person ever.
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Did someone say, “penises wearing outfits?”
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I used to enjoy playing Uno on the Xbox 360. This was one of the first Xbox games to support the Xbox camera (this was pre-Kinect). Keep in mind this is Uno we are talking about.
Of course there were people live streaming their dicks.
From Polygons retrospective on Xbox Live at http://www.polygon.com/a/the-second-generation-of-xbox-live:
[quote]Time to penis
“Hacking on Call of Duty started to get totally out of control around [2008], with people hacking the game and custom lobbies and all that kind of stuff,” says ATG Account Manager Sam Charchian. "We built this really tight integration between [Infinity Ward’s] anti-hack team and ours inside, because Microsoft has their own, what they call the Xbox Live Enforcement team. We had their anti-hack/enforcement team come spend a day with ours and talk about how they could work together to hopefully defeat these people.
"One of the funny things that came out of it … we’re meeting with the Xbox Live enforcement team, and [there was] a woman on the team who’s in her early 20s. She was explaining that she spends a good part of her week going into Uno games with the camera on and basically just waiting for dudes who will see a woman playing Uno with her camera on and expose themselves.
"I was like … ‘Really? How often do you actually have dudes, you know, whip it out?’ And she said, ‘Eh, my time to penis is about 14 minutes on the average.’
I mean, she would sit on there and just ban these guys when she ran into them, but apparently it was a serious problem. Part of what makes it extra sad is that it’s Uno, which you think would be a family-friendly game for people to play."
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I have not gotten a dick pic on Uno (on Facebook), but I have been hit on. And sworn at when I wasn’t interested. It’s fucking Uno for chrissakes, six-year-olds play it.
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Ehh…I mean, I’m only a bisexual in love with a gay man, not gay myself, but…unsolicited dick pics are not sexy to me. Neither is unsolicited any kind of sexual pic, really.
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That was literally the next sentence in the post.
There was an extension for Chrome that would replace baby pictures on Facebook with pictures of cats, a few years ago. A quick search seems to indicate that it 1) changed its name and expanded to let you replace pictures of anything with pictures of anything else, and 2) stopped working. Alas.
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Sort of how I can block all unsolicited phone calls? Yeah, it works about that well too. 
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This afternoon, after I looked at the family calendar. “Honey, not sure what exactly is scheduled for the 26th but do me and my penis need to be somewhere? … Oh, right yes I see that now sorry.”
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Don’t leave us “hanging”…what is that word?
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I am struggling to see any connection between sexual preference and ones likeliness to appreciate unsolicited junk mail.
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You CAN on both iOS and Android phones and it works perfectly. When turned on if they aren’t in your contacts your phone won’t ring.
How would blocking texted images (until clicked) from people not in your contacts not work? That would be super easy and foolproof to implement. I cannot think of any way in which it wouldn’t work.
The problem is that I do, occasionally, get a non-contacts list call from, say, my bank about card fraud, or my mortgage lender. Sure, they can leave a message but I wish there was a better system. Android had a decent app that I used to use that crowdsourced spam identification for calls so if a number was a known offender that people have reported, they were in a black list.
It’s like a magic-eye picture… I see it morphing between “Devils” and “Penis” and “Denis”
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Phone Number Blockers: Well yes, with the phone number blockers, if you bank isn’t calling you from a number in your contacts, they will leave a message and you’ll have to call them back. The phone number blocker works it sounds like you just don’t always want it to, which is what selective screening is for.
Blocking Images from Unknown Texters w/ Click to View Image: You brought up the phone number blockers as an example of why my idea of blocking images in text messages from people not in your contacts wouldn’t work well. It would still allow you to click and view the images if you choose. It wouldn’t block images from any of your regular contacts. I don’t see how the shortcoming you find with the phone number blockers relates. I still can’t think of any downside, and programming wise it would be super easy to implement.
Why wouldn’t an option to block images from texters not in your contacts, unless you choose to click the blocked image notification to view, work? Are there any downsides to that approach? Seems like a no brainer to me, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t see it as a standard feature in future apps.
I see Pevils, which is kinda like saying rednecks.
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