Facebook has removed an Italian group, which has seen that men have often shared intimate images of unheard women with thousands of people online.
Mia Mowgli Group, which translates my wife into English, had around 32,000 members before closing this week.
Its discovery has inspired resentment among Italians which are concerned about the growing similar groups in its absence.
Meta, who owns Facebook, stated that it closed the page “to violate our adult sexual abuse policies”.
The screenshot taken before removing the Facebook group, sometimes appeared to show pictures of women in various states during sleeping or intimate moments.
There were many sexually clear comments from men under the positions. Some said that they wanted to “rape” the woman, while others praised the secret nature of some photographs.
Page was highlighted by writer Carolina Capriya, who posted online and said that she feels “nausea” and “scared” what she saw,
He said, “It is such a difference in our culture to connect violence with sexuality that in a public group, men write without hiding their names and faces,” he said.
Fiorella Zabatta of the European Greens Party said on social media that it was “not only harmless fun”, but “virtual rape”.
“These platforms should be fought, this toxic idea of ​​manhood should be fought, and we all need to take action: civil society and politics”.
Revenge porn, sexually apparent images or videos that were for living private were made illegal in Italy in 2019.
Italian media reports show that more than a thousand people have already informed the group to the police unit that investigates cyber crime.
Meta’s statement said “We do not allow materials that endanger or promote sexual violence, sexual harassment or sexual abuse on our platforms”.
The discovery of the Italian Facebook page saw some similarities for the French Pelicot case. Last year, Dominic Pelicott was sentenced to 20 years in jail for abusing, abusing and inviting his then wife Gissle Pelicot.
Despite being virtual, Capriya said that it was shown that the Pelicot case was not an discrepancy in both examples, showing that “a man who believes that he could control his wife, and for which sexuality is associated with harassment”.
