The man cleaning up by removing revenge porn
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A formal submission must be made to the publisher of the images; when that’s Facebook, your request will be put into a queue by a team of human moderators. But you have to show value very, very quickly.” Whenever he got a business owner to tell him what they were paying someone else per month for SEO, Bell would offer to halve it, and not charge until agreed objectives had been met. The criminalisation of revenge porn in Australia last year means that publishers bound to local laws will usually act on Removify’s takedown requests quickly, Bell says. “Say you’ve got a guy who was done for tax fraud 10 years ago, he’s trying to rebuild his career and the first result on a search of his name is the Financial Review article on the old court case,” Bell says. “The US is absolutely anything goes when it comes to defamation, so we think the suppression business there could be huge.” The November issue of AFR Magazine is out on Friday, October 25 inside The Australian Financial Review.