It shows how much our societal norms and laws were - and still are - completely unprepared for the implications of everyone being able to effortlessly copy and distribute images and video all over the world. We're still in a sort of local to national mindset, but international and virtual issues completely shortcut a lot of the foundations of that, and the people who get caught in that friction get hurt, sometimes very badly.
If someone wants to ruin your reputation and cause you immense grief, they can very easily do that, and there is basically nothing you can do once the material is out there, especially if it is pornographic in nature.
Privacy is a basic human right, and yet we are trampling all over it. I wish I knew what we as humanity could do about this, because shitty people aren't just magically going to stop existing, and the internet is an extremely powerful tool for abuse in their hands.
Facilitating abuse by sharing abuse materials should be subject to just as hard punishment as uploading them in the first place.
The subjects of Nick Ut's “The Terror of War” didn't sign consent papers, the same with countless other famous photos. There is no doubt you have seen it. Aren't you the one of the “shitty people”? Will you repent?
If someone wants to ruin your reputation and cause you immense grief, they can very easily do that, and there is basically nothing you can do once the material is out there, especially if it is pornographic in nature.
Privacy is a basic human right, and yet we are trampling all over it. I wish I knew what we as humanity could do about this, because shitty people aren't just magically going to stop existing, and the internet is an extremely powerful tool for abuse in their hands.
Facilitating abuse by sharing abuse materials should be subject to just as hard punishment as uploading them in the first place.