Mina refuses to be silenced

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When Mina Camira discovered that online pictures of her had been stolen and misused, she was shocked. She turned her anger into activism and now speaks up for women in the virtual world. Title Mina refuses to be silenced

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00:00Mina Kamira was shocked to discover pictures of herself on porn sites.

00:03As I looked at it, I understood how big it is and how dangerous it is,

00:08because people really look at me for years.

00:11Mina loves buying and selling her clothes on Vinted, a second-hand shopping platform.

00:15A friend searched her name on Google and discovered that pictures she had uploaded on her account had been stolen

00:21and then distributed on dozens of porn websites.

00:24Egal, how the photo looks, what the person looks like, nothing is correct.

00:29She reported the incident to the police, but the complaint was dropped because no perpetrator could be identified.

00:34She also felt she wasn't being taken seriously.

00:37Sein erster Satz war, ja, was du einmal ins Internet stellst, das bleibt im Internet.

00:41Aber der Punkt ist ja, dass sie so missbraucht werden und instrumentalisiert werden

00:44und im falschen Kontext dargestellt werden.

00:46After a TikTok-Video about what had happened to Mina went viral, many other women got in touch.

00:51Ja, wir schätzen ein, dass das Problem sehr, sehr groß ist und es da einfach eine sehr hohe Dunkelzahl gibt.

00:57Das heißt, die Verantwortung muss definitiv bei den Plattformen liegen und beim Gesetzgeber und bei den Stracherfolgungsbehörden.

01:05Vina started a petition demanding better security on platforms like Vinted, for example a screenshot-log.

01:11Vinted replied to us that finding solutions will take some time.

01:14Vina wants to see change as soon as possible.

01:17Also soll ich jetzt nicht ins Internet gehen, wenn du halt nicht auf Pornoseiten landen willst?

01:20Also das kann nicht die Lösung sein.

01:22Es ist so Täter-Opfer-Umkehr und es muss endlich ernst genommen werden und dass auch Täter gefasst werden und Konsequenzen erfahren.

01:29Wir haben den Ringell

01:45und ja!

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