• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    If the person is a slut it wouldn’t be libel but it would still damage reputation

    Sure, in which case the person wouldn’t legally be a victim. It’s completely legal to tell the truth.

    But that strays a bit from the point. Making fake porn of someone is a false reputation of that person’s character, and thus illegal, but only if it actually causes damages to reputation (i.e. you distribute it). Or at least that’s the line of argumentation I think someone would use in states where “revenge porn” isn’t explicitly illegal.

    Even if the person is a porn star, the damage is that the porn is coming from somewhere other than the approved channels, thus the damages. Or maybe it’s lost sales. Regardless, there are actual, articulable damages.

    The reason for the illegality is the lack of consent not the reputation damage.

    Maybe in states where it’s expressly illegal. I’m talking more from a theoretical standpoint where there isn’t an explicit law against it.

    If there’s no explicit law, tht standard is defamation/libel or violation of a reasonable expectation of privacy.

    we make exceptions for especially sensitive subjects such as sex.

    That’s the reasonable expectation of privacy standard (that applies inside houses when in bedrooms, bathrooms, etc, even if it’s not your house). If you’re doing it in public, there’s no reasonable expectation of privacy, so I think a court would consider filming in that context to be legal.

    Then again, this could certainly vary by jurisdiction.

    I also believe that people who uploaded photos of themselves/their children did not consent to having their photos used to make sexual content

    They don’t need to consent for any use, if it’s made available for personal use, then any individual can use it for personal use, even if that’s sexual content. As long as they don’t distribute it, they’re fine to use it as they please.

    If you want control over how how content is used, don’t make it available for personal use.

    but from what you said you think it would be okay

    Yes. I certainly don’t want them to do that, but I really don’t want to live in a society with the surveillance necessary to prosecute such a law. Someone being creepy with pictures of my kids is disgusting, but it honestly doesn’t hurt me or my kids in any way, provided they don’t share those images with anyone.

    So yes, I think it’s a necessary evil to have the kinds of privacy protections I think are valuable to have in a free society. Freedom means letting people do creepy things that don’t hurt anyone else.

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      4 months ago

      Even if the person is a porn star, the damage is that the porn is coming from somewhere other than the approved channels, thus the damages

      The damages would be the mental harm done to the victim. Most porn stars have content available for free so that wouldn’t be a reason for damages

      That’s the reasonable expectation of privacy standard (that applies inside houses when in bedrooms, bathrooms, etc, even if it’s not your house). If you’re doing it in public, there’s no reasonable expectation of privacy, so I think a court would consider filming in that context to be legal.

      The expectation of privacy doesn’t apply to one party consent States but they still can’t record sexual activities of someone without their consent

      If you want control over how how content is used, don’t make it available for personal use.

      I don’t think people who uploaded pictures on Facebook consider that making it available for personal use

      I really don’t want to live in a society with the surveillance necessary to prosecute such a law.

      Did i say anything about surveillance? Just because something is made illegal doesn’t make it actively pursued, it just makes it so if someone gets caught doing it or gets reported doing it they can be stopped. Like you’d be able to stop the person from doing that to your children. Or if someone gets their house raided for something else they can be charged for it. Not every person who has real csam creates it or shares it, many times they just get caught by another charge then it gets found. Or the geek squad worker sees it on their computer and reports them.

      It would give people avenues to stop others from using photos of their children in such a way. You wouldn’t need any extra surveillance

      Freedom means letting people do creepy things that don’t hurt anyone else.

      Do you think it’s okay for someone to have real csam? Let’s say the person who made it was properly prosecuted and the person who has the images/videos don’t share it, they just have it to use. Do you think that’s okay?