Yet another fraternity has fallen victim to its own bad behavior.
Penn State has suspended Kappa Delta Rho for a year because frat brothers used private Facebook pages to share photos of nude, unconscious women.
Pictures taken, obviously, without consent. And that violation, just as obviously, was part of the smirky, sick joy of the thing.
Hail to the frat boy who brought a few printouts to authorities to get the “fun” shut down. Those who posted the pictures may face criminal charges.
The news broke just days after Facebook released another update of its policies, this time on community standards.
The social-media powerhouse keeps running into problems on this front — e.g., flagging nude paintings as possible cause to shut down a page. Women have had to fight for the right to post their breastfeeding photos. (Facebook now specifically OKs this.)
Just what graphic content to ban has been a point of contention across social-media platforms — Instagram’s “Free the Nipple” campaign is still going strong; nipples are still verboten on Facebook.
But the Kappa Delta Cro Magnons were blatantly breaking the law with their rape-y, pervy porn page, “Covert Business Transactions.”
Lots of idiots and sickos see the Web’s freedoms as license to laugh at the rules of civilized society.
And Internet entrepreneurs play along with talk of how they won’t let the authorities inspect your online activities.
Facebook loves to preach about privacy — while updating its legal policies too often for anyone to keep up.
Not that the Kappa Delta page complied with Facebook rules. But, still, someone had to fink to get it stopped.