orclev@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Uh… What’s the tea app?
“talk”
They try to get a pass on this by saying it’s about “safety” and reporting creeps. But it’s filled with women posting dudes and gossip. It gives me the same vibes as those sites back in the day that were shut down because they were essentially Tennent revenge porn sites. Same shit different form.
Yes, trying to warn other women about a man you dated who abused you or gave off weird vibes is definitely the same as getting your nudes or porn video of yourself leaked against your will onto the public internet for everyone to see
Yea cause that’s what these sites totally were doing
Oh hey look, the straw man is waving at you
The drivers license thing is likely due to a law passed by the UK a few days ago requires all mature content to be behind an age check. And not a “Are you 18: Yes / No”, more like “we will check using ID and photos of you”.
It’s the most hated piece of legislation in a while, with already 100 000 petition votes in 3 days to repeal it.
None of the driver licenses shown in the screenshot are UK style.
No idea why they were collecting identification then.
Even worse, since the hackers got a bunch of the data at once, the company must have held onto those pictures long after they registered people to their service, which they likely didn’t need to do.
Oh yes the famous state of Colorado UK.
UK driving licences do not look like that, they don’t have US states on them (major clue), at green, and if the person in the photo actually looks like a living human and not corpse, it gets sent back as unacceptable.
Actually UK licenses are pink. Provisionals are green
Almost 250k petition votes now, 150k more votes in the past day alone.
Oh, so they started requiring that in the last couple days?
The app ostensibly required ID uploads to verify that you were a woman signing up, men were not allowed to join for obvious reasons
Aside from the fact that it was stored in a public database, there’s no need to store photos of the IDs at all. The account can just be marked as verified and move on.
Also I doubt that measure would keep a man out if he really wanted to join…
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Found this article after a quick web search: forbes.com/…/what-is-tea-the-viral-women-only-app…
It’s an app where women upload photos of men they’re dating to get “the tea” on them (red flags, catfishing, etc.). I always wondered if something like this existed. Sucks that it has to, sucks even more if their users are being targeted like this.
Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Talk about adding to the toxic nature of the world. Anyone thinking we should have a digital record of social reputation isn’t thinking it through.
glimse@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a reaction to the toxic nature of the world, what it adds is a drop in the bucket in exchange for avoiding abusers
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
If this was an app where men post photos of women without their permission, you would he losing your mind over how gross it is.
Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Strong disagree. Just creating another bully culture.
IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
But are they abusers? You sure they ain’t just getting revenge on an ex, making them uhdateable. How do you even validate this information?
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s gossip and toxic. Have you not seen what these places are on Facebook?
Gigasser@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean. A social database I feel is toxic in of itself. It’s makes forgiveness harder, it makes changing yourself harder. What’s the point in changing if people are gonna look you up in a database like this and perhaps forevermore treat you as if you are like that in the present day, forever. It assumes that humans are unchanging, that once a shitty person always a shitty person.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
The reason that up until now an app like that hasn’t existed is because it is an absolutely awful idea if you spend more than 10 seconds thinking about it.
It’s ripe for abuse in fact I would be surprised if even half of the reports are legitimate. Isn’t absolutely god awful system and whoever thought this up is an absolute prat, who seriously needs to get outside and actually experience real life and real people.
TassieTosser@aussie.zone 1 month ago
The original incarnation on Facebook got sued for posting libel and shut down. There’s no judge of truth on these apps it’s all she said and no he said.
damnedfurry@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It doesn’t have to.