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

Submitted on Sunday 24th November 2013

Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

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

Additional Information

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.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

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

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