Should revenge porn be legal?

[LordLarry]

Revenge porn is sending nude images of someone without consent. The images need not to have been taken involuntarily for the act of sharing them to be revenge porn. It is illegal in several states and may become illegal federally.

I personally think that it should be legal. If someone really wants to share nude photos without them being leaked, there is always the option of having the recipient sign a legal contract.

[KaiserDave]

The Yellow Avatar stereotype has arrived....

[Kuumo]

Let the ratioing begin.

[S019]

No (literally sane)

[John Dule]

The Yellow Avatar stereotype has arrived....

This must be how red avs feel whenever S019 posts.

[LordLarry]

The Yellow Avatar stereotype has arrived....

It looks like the other yellow avatar voted "No," so don't make any hasty generalizations.

[Antonio the Sixth]

No (normal, sane, not a degenerate)

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

The Yellow Avatar stereotype has arrived....

It's less that he's a yellow avatar and more that he appears to be Opebo 2.0 in the way he views the relationship between his values and what happens to be personally convenient to him:

I used to be a centrist, but my economic views swerved to the right after landing a job in property management.

[FT-02 Senator A.F.E. 🇵🇸🤝🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦]

You good there bro?

[Pink Panther]

Woah there, tiger. Chill.

[Ferguson97]

Aren't you the guy who wants the age of consent to be lowered?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Aren't you the guy who wants the age of consent to be lowered?

"If that ninth-grader didn't want her semiretired sugar daddy selling that picture of her in her training bra to Pornhub, she should have sent it to him on Docusign with an NDA attached. Live free or die! Also, your rent's due."

[Aurelius]

No, and the fetish for making everything subject to a legal contract is one of the more annoying things about doctrinaire libertarianism.

[Schiff for Senate]

The Yellow Avatar stereotype has arrived....

It's less that he's a yellow avatar and more that he appears to be Opebo 2.0 in the way he views the relationship between his values and what happens to be personally convenient to him:

I used to be a centrist, but my economic views swerved to the right after landing a job in property management.

A lot of people's economic views shift based on their own economic position - there's nothing morally wrong or shameful about that, unless the shift is massive or they are in political power. I mean, quite honestly, a lot of labourers back in the 1900s were liberal on labour issues because of their job - they were otherwise conservative (like on social issues) and would likely adapt their economic view if their economic position improved. The fact that LordLarry has admitted this so candidly isn't necessarily a bad reflection to his character - to the contrary. The only part I find worrying is his saying it "swerved" to the right. I'd get a rightward shift, but if it moved monumentally to the right, then yeah, that is a little unnerving.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

The Yellow Avatar stereotype has arrived....

It's less that he's a yellow avatar and more that he appears to be Opebo 2.0 in the way he views the relationship between his values and what happens to be personally convenient to him:

I used to be a centrist, but my economic views swerved to the right after landing a job in property management.

A lot of people's economic views shift based on their own economic position - there's nothing morally wrong or shameful about that, unless the shift is massive or they are in political power. I mean, quite honestly, a lot of labourers back in the 1900s were liberal on labour issues because of their job - they were otherwise conservative (like on social issues) and would likely adapt their economic view if their economic position improved. The fact that LordLarry has admitted this so candidly isn't necessarily a bad reflection to his character - to the contrary. The only part I find worrying is his saying it "swerved" to the right. I'd get a rightward shift, but if it moved monumentally to the right, then yeah, that is a little unnerving.

It's the combination of the candor on this with the horrendous takes On The Issues that it evidently leads him to that's opeboesque. It's the whole package.

[politicallefty]

I think it depends on how it was obtained. The major point has to do with consent. If you willingly share nude photos or videos with another person, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy or that said media won't necessarily be shared. And, once that media has been transferred, it is in the possession of another individual. I know it sounds harsh, but it is not the government's right or responsibility to protect people from their own free speech or the speech of another.

[Meclazine for Israel]

The legislative world needs to catch up to the digital world.

The hurt caused by revenge porn is almost like online cultural rape if the images are transferred far and wide.

It should be 120% illegal.

[Cokeland Saxton]

Of course it should be illegal. There's no question.

[Antonio the Sixth]

If you willingly share nude photos or videos with another person, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy or that said media won't necessarily be shared.

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Look. I know I'm the last person on this forum who can make a remark like this but. Do you have any idea how relationships work?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Oh don't mind me. I'm just writing a list of people whose hard-drives need to be checked by authorities, please, please, keep talking

[afleitch]

Absolutely f-cking not is the correct and only answer here.

[Del Tachi]

Just don’t send nude pics, kids….

[DaleCooper]

It should be illegal.

[LordLarry]

I think it depends on how it was obtained. The major point has to do with consent. If you willingly share nude photos or videos with another person, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy or that said media won't necessarily be shared. And, once that media has been transferred, it is in the possession of another individual. I know it sounds harsh, but it is not the government's right or responsibility to protect people from their own free speech or the speech of another.

I agree completely. I believe that if the images were obtained without the person's consent, then sharing it should be illegal. I'm talking about the situation where a person willingly shares explicit photos of himself or herself, at which point there isn't an expectation of privacy.

Think about it like this. We are taught that anything that we post online, even what we believe to be private, can be made public and be held against us. Therefore, we are responsible for everything we post online. However, nudity is the one legal exception to this rule. Why?

And to be quite frank, I don't think that anyone ought to be taking nude images of himself or herself. It's very strange behavior to me.

[afleitch]

I think it depends on how it was obtained. The major point has to do with consent. If you willingly share nude photos or videos with another person, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy or that said media won't necessarily be shared. And, once that media has been transferred, it is in the possession of another individual. I know it sounds harsh, but it is not the government's right or responsibility to protect people from their own free speech or the speech of another.

I agree completely. I believe that if the images were obtained without the person's consent, then sharing it should be illegal. I'm talking about the situation where a person willingly shares explicit photos of himself or herself, at which point there isn't an expectation of privacy.

Think about it like this. We are taught that anything that we post online, even what we believe to be private, can be made public and be held against us. Therefore, we are responsible for everything we post online. However, nudity is the one legal exception to this rule. Why?

And to be quite frank, I don't think that anyone ought to be taking nude images of himself or herself. It's very strange behavior to me.

Sending nude pictures on dating apps has been a 'thing' for over twenty years. The straights might have been later to the game but it's still not a recent phenomenon. And partners share pictures. That doesn't give make anything 'domain' and their absolutely is an expectation of privacy.