27 February 2015, 1.55pm AEDT Reddit tackles ‘revenge porn’ and celebrity nudes Emily van der Nagel & James Meese Emily van der Nagel is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Health, Arts and Design and the Swinburne Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University of Technology. James Meese is a Research Associate at University of Melbourne This article was published in The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/reddit-tackles-revenge-porn-and-celebrity-nudes-38112 Reddit's new policy to remove unsolicited nude photos is a step in the right direction to prevent celebrity nude photos and revenge porn from appearing on its site. Reddit is working to ensure the only nude images that appear on its site have the consent of the subject. Lotus Carroll/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA In a move to protect user privacy and curb revenge porn, social media site Reddit has banned naked photos that are shared on its site without the consent of the subject of the photo. The updated policy, which will come into effect on March 10, is partly in response to leaked celebrity nude scandal of 2014, “The Fappening”, where hundreds of images of celebrities were allegedly stolen and reposted on sites such as 4chan and Reddit. Actors Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton were among those who had revealing photos spread across the internet, with Lawrence describing the scandal as a “sex crime”. So will this policy change at Reddit stop it from happening again?