Swedish teens riot over Instagram sex rumours

[Faroth]

http://www.towleroad.com/2012/12/ins...ur-photos.html

And now instagram might own all those photos and the legal right to sell them.

[Deleted]

http://www.thelocal.se/45142/20121218/#.UNB4ZG_AexU

Swedish high school students outraged over sexual rumours circulating on Instagram about girls in the Gothenburg area barricaded a school in protest and turned violent when police intervened.

"They're throwing bottles and stones at the police and attacking passers-by and people driving past," Västra Götaland police spokesman Björ Blixter told the Aftonbladet newspaper.

A student at Plusgymnasiet high shool in Gothenburg was outed as the owner of the anonymous Instagram account, a claim which has not been verified.

"She is out of harm's way, that was the first thing we made sure of," Paula Hammargren, spokesperson for the school's owner Academedia, told The Local as she boarded a train heading for Gothenburg.

The school has asked other schools in Gothenburg to "come and get" their students to calm the situation down.

The turmoil was set off after an Instagram user asked for tips on "sluts" in Gothenburg, and promised anonymity to anyone sending in pictures. More than 200 pictures were submitted, giving names and alleged sexual activities of girls aged 13 to 14.

Followers of the Instagram account ballooned as more and more pictures of Swedish teens labeled as "sluts" and "whores".

"It grew to 7,000 to 8,000 followers. They were [pictures of] younger siblings of my friends, born around 1997 and later, that were uploaded," a 22-year-old Gothenburg resident told Aftonbladet.

Once the Instagram account was shut down, the allegations then appeared on a Facebook page. Users began naming each other and the comments field was quickly filled with threats of violence.

A second Facebook page called for people to assemble at the school of the 17-year-old girl believed to have posted the initial 'slut request' and then shared the pictures of the underage girls. That page reportedly said the older girl needed to be beaten up as punishment.

Expecting trouble, police had gathered at the Plusgymnasiet high school by 8.30am on Tuesday.

"As far as I know, about 600 said they were coming on the Facebook event page and are heading here," police spokesman Fredrik Dahlgren told TT this morning.

Certain streets around the school have been blocked off, with horse-mounted police, SWAT teams, and police using city buses to shuttle people away from the scene.

One witness told the Aftonbladet newspaper that the situation seemed to be spiraling out of control.

"The protesters are kicking down lampposts and jumping on cars," he told the paper.

"They're going berserk."

Around 1.30pm, police spokesman Björ Blixer admitted police were having trouble handling the tumult.

"It doesn't feel like we have control of the situation at the moment," he told Aftonbladet.

The rioting students then moved over to the Nordstan mall in central Gothenburg, forcing confused holiday shoppers to take cover inside stores as police work to bring the unruly teens under control.

"They rushed in and were chasing one another and shouting threats," one frightened shopper told TT.

Police have parked a van in front of one of the mall entrances, according to TT, in an effort to block the advance of the angry mob.

By 2pm, the scene at the mall had calmed down.

"There hasn't been any damage that we know of," Nordstan mall marketing director Anders Larsson told TT, adding that the mall has decided to beef up security for the rest of the day as a precaution against further disturbances.

The incident comes on the day after as it emerged that new policies governing the popular image-sharing site, recently purchased by Facebook, would enable it to use members' names and images alongside marketing messages.

The changes prompted an outpouring of angry comments on Twitter and other social media forums, and also raised concerned among privacy advocates that the company could exploit images of users as young as 13.

Founded in 2010, Instragram is a free photo-sharing program and social network that allows users to apply digital filters to their pictures and then share them with other Instagram users.

As of September 2012, the service had an estimated 100 million registered users.

What a weird thing to riot about o.O

is it wierd to you that girls gets upset when some stupid pigs talk in a way and hangs pictures on some girls labeling them as sluts and whores then you son need a headscan. i couldent be more proud being swedish and see such a serious reaction to such disgusting and degrading behavior. Something i cant say canada or england would have done looking att events like this in there country. The swedish cops and laws are infested with morons that treat even the sickest fuck as a poor victim and a hero as a villain and also somehow see leashed dogs held by the owner as a (threat) to the owner and shoot them to death (missing alot) sometimes i feel like tossing a brick agaist those morons to.

[Reeve]

I'm gonna go ahead and safely say that if you're 13/14 sending nudes and doing sexual acts, you're probably a slut.

Where do you see where they were sending nudes and pictures of sexual acts? All I saw in the article was that pictures of them were submitted with comments on their alleged sexual acts. That sounds like something an angry brother would do, or a rival girl at their school.

[Management]

I think the reason for the riot was legit. I mean, hanging people out like that isn't ok.

However I think kids that take indecent pictures of them selves when they are like 13 are a lot worse then the ones uploading them. Even worse, I hate when obnoxious little 13 year old girls hit on me, like seriously hit on me, and I am 17 going on 18... Disgusting.

[Kurioxan]

I'm gonna go ahead and safely say that if you're 13/14 sending nudes and doing sexual acts, you're probably a slut.

Having sex at 13 or 14 doesnt make you a slut lol.
The pictures might have been posted by disgruntled guys who did NOT have sex with them.

Too quick to judge, whats with the benefit of the doubt and assuming what is on the internet is true? Just because people were posting pictures of the girls does not mean they were actual "sluts" or doing anything of what is said.
Also, so what if they are sluts, big deal :S

Far more disgusting behavior than "being a slut" is making a defamatory site without any evidence, even with evidence would be kinda meh

[Reeve]

I think the reason for the riot was legit. I mean, hanging people out like that isn't ok.

However I think kids that take indecent pictures of them selves when they are like 13 are a lot worse then the ones uploading them. Even worse, I hate when obnoxious little 13 year old girls hit on me, like seriously hit on me, and I am 17 going on 18... Disgusting.

Again, where do you see anything about the pictures being indecent?

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in wales they a willing to put there pics up http://www.facebook.com/EmbarrassingPhotosWales

[TEHPALLYTANK]

Rioting, that is always a great way to calm things down and get people to be reasonable. People need to be taught not to believe everything they read on the internet...

[Deleted]

I think the reason for the riot was legit. I mean, hanging people out like that isn't ok.

If you think the reason for this riot is legit, then damn, that's a lot of legit riots.

[Smetz]

It wasnt a legit riot. It was a bunch of people that went there to get revenge on the people who sent in stuff and then started to act like apes doing shit to ppl who had nothing to do with it.

[Soisoisoi]

I would say google could probably give you the answer (as to whether or not the photos were indecent) but as they are that young I would probably advise against doing so. o.O

[fizzbob]

Does it matter? It's really trivial in either case in comparison to what people should riot about.

I'm just a dick who called her a slut just because I'm a dick, I don't really care either way since the riots are pathetic to begin with.

If you think the reason for this riot is legit, then damn, that's a lot of legit riots.

at what point are you going to contribute something? how about you take this chance i'm allowing you to have to state your case as to how you feel about this, why it's wrong and what should happen to the person who started all this with their e-assault

go

my take is that someone stirred up trouble, trouble happened and i blame the person who did the stirring farm more than the people who were being laughed at and mocked for being sluts

to a teen girl, that's about as bad as life can get

[Killingifrit]

swedes? oh please stop this slander right now. Look at the videos and pictures. they are immigrants. if these men are swedes then I am chinese.

[PACOX]

If you don't want something to be scene then don't put it out there for the world to see... I was actually glad when I saw that Disney was running an ad campaign to kids about being responsible for what you post on the net.

Stop taking the blame off these kids for doing stupid shit. Hello when I was their age we didn't even think about passing around nudes anyway. What is wrong with them?
And people are that 13–14 year old son are responsible enough to have sex... Looks like they are handling it responsibility.

[loganroth51]

I never cease to be surprised when girls at my high school get photos leaked, and then are surprised and upset. Seriously, those pictures are most likely always gonna get shown to other people, no matter how many times the person you sent them to promise they wont.

People cant keep a secret, keep your clothes on for the camera people lol.

[Kurioxan]

swedes? oh please stop this slander right now. Look at the videos and pictures. they are immigrants. if these men are swedes then I am chinese.

made an account just to troll uh?

[MCMXCIX]

Having sex at 13 or 14 doesnt make you a slut lol.

Since when? That is way too young of an age to have sex or upload risque pictures of yourself. Even if it's just you showing off your cleavage... you're 13, wtf.

[fizzbob]

If you don't want something to be scene then don't put it out there for the world to see... I was actually glad when I saw that Disney was running an ad campaign to kids about being responsible for what you post on the net.

Stop taking the blame off these kids for doing stupid shit. Hello when I was their age we didn't even think about passing around nudes anyway. What is wrong with them?
And people are that 13–14 year old son are responsible enough to have sex... Looks like they are handling it responsibility.

you don't have to post it. it's easy to hack a cell via bluetooth

most celebrity leaked nude pics come from that. this is just doing what people have done for ages, digitally stealing someone's property

[Deleted]

at what point are you going to contribute something? how about you take this chance i'm allowing you to have to state your case as to how you feel about this, why it's wrong and what should happen to the person who started all this with their e-assault

Read my first post again for your first two questions.

As for what should happen with the guy who begun the e-assault, I don't care what happens to him because the issue is so trivial. The law shouldn't get involved with a guy posting pics of some 13-14 year olds, the only thing the law should take care of are the riots.

swedes? oh please stop this slander right now. Look at the videos and pictures. they are immigrants. if these men are swedes then I am chinese.

So just because they aren't ethnic Swedes they aren't Swedes at all? That's just dumb.

[StayTuned]

Teens these days. Back when I was 14, we didn't even think about doing something like that.