Taiwan’s health ministry introduced regulations in August that give victims the power to report revenge porn. It now says that only about a quarter of the nearly 700 cases reported since then have been processed.
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00:00 Taiwan's efforts to combat the spread of revenge porn online are proving ineffective.
00:06 Taiwan's health ministry in August introduced regulations that give victims the power to
00:10 report revenge porn.
00:11 It now says that only about a quarter of the over 700 cases reported since then have been
00:16 processed.
00:17 Of those, just over half resulted in the images being taken down.
00:22 Authorities say foreign IP addresses and difficulties prosecuting offenders are among obstacles
00:26 victims face.
00:27 "When he went to file a complaint, he found that the application process required him
00:32 to apply for each and every one of them.
00:36 Finally, the photos were taken down.
00:39 But he didn't expect that his ex-boyfriend would then upload these photos to another
00:45 website.
00:46 He would re-upload them."