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Right To Be Forgotten? Web Privacy Debate in Italy After Women's Suicide (ndtv.com)
The suicide of a woman who battled for months to have a video of her having sex removed from the internet is fuelling debate in Italy on the "right to be forgotten" online. The 31-year-old, identified as Tiziana, was found hanged at her aunt's home in Mugnano, close to Naples in the country's south on Tuesday, reports Agence France-Presse. From the report: Her death came a year after she sent a video of herself having sex to some friends, including her ex-boyfriend, to make him jealous. The video and her name soon found their way to the web and went viral, fuelling mockery of the woman online. The footage has been viewed by almost a million internet users. In a bid to escape the humiliation, Tiziana quit her job, moved to Tuscany and tried to change her name, but her nightmare went on. The words "You're filming? Bravo," spoken by the woman to her lover in the video, have become a derisive joke online, and the phrase has been printed on T-shirts, smartphone cases and other items. After a long court battle, Tiziana recently won a "right to be forgotten" ruling ordering the video to be removed from various sites and search engines, including Facebook.
but actions shouldn't be remembered
She did a stupid, vain thing on the internet and got made a laughingstock by millions as a result, same as Tron Guy, Star Wars Kid, Chris Crocker, or any number of other internet 'celebrities.' I doubt you launched to the defense of them, though. Wonder what's different here? Hmm...
Social awkwardness, Aspergers, and so on have this nasty side to them. The natural desire and curiosity is there, the lack of social graces makes it hard to satisfy, the loneliness when others' social and sex lives work and yours dont can be excruciating, and the means to remedy the problems is often either taboo, niche, or unattainable. The pressure to enjoy spreading naughty videos is strong, and sensible alternatives non-existent. By seeing these people as 'akward herberts' to be sidelined, ignored and labelled away compounds the problem.
John_Chalisque
If Facebook had just removed the videos and prevented them from being re-uploaded, maybe banning accounts that did so after being warned, that would have been enough. Combined with de-listing on major search engines the problem would have been near as possible resolved.
Facebook doesn't do enough to ID videos and remove them automatically. YouTube has that technology, just try uploading a modern movie and see how long your account lasts.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
the bullies insist, it was their First Amendment right to criticize and boycott Mr. Eich
... and they were right. They do indeed have the right to speak and boycott.
Resigning is no different from suicide in this case
Except the resignation was driven by constitutionally protected speech, and the suicide was not. Even if you want to argue that she had no privacy rights, she still owned the copyright on the video, and no one else had the right to copy or publish it without her explicit permission.