Rejected petition Shut down Ratemash website due to using students photographs without permission and promoting scoring based on looks

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The Ratemash website has recently been identified as taking photographs from Facebook, sorting them by university and creating a leaderboard where website visitors can rate each person by their looks.
Ratemash has not sought permission from the individuals to add them to the website and is promoting degrading behaviour by voting on people based on their looks.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

The Government is monitoring the situation with various ISPs but wishes to to keep the internet self-regulating where possible.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 24 November 2013
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