petition, dick pics, Empower Project, Calling for social media platforms to take a zero tolerance approach towards perpetrators.

Natasha Harpley started a petition recently calling on the UK Parliament, Twitter and Facebook to make it an offence for men to send unsolicited penis photos.

She was sent an ‘unsolicited dick pic’, via Facebook, because she turned down a stranger’s unwanted sexual advances.

To warn other women and to seek advice, she posted screenshots of his messages to her own timeline (with a content warning) and Facebook, punished her for breaking “Community Standards”, and blocked her from being able to use her own account, while the man who harassed her, and who she and multiple people reported, was still active.

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