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Navy, Marines Prohibit Sharing Nude Photos In Wake of a Facebook Scandal (fortune.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: The Navy and Marine Corps issued new regulations that ban members from sharing nude photographs following a scandal involving military personnel sharing intimate pictures of their female colleagues -- some of which were taken without their knowledge -- in a secret Facebook group. The new statute, which was signed Tuesday by Acting Navy Secretary Sean Stackley, went into effect immediately and will be made permanent when the next edition of the Navy's regulations is printed, according to Navy Times. Military courts will handle violations of the new rule. The crackdown comes after a Facebook group was uncovered featuring naked photos of female service members. The group was eventually shut down by Facebook after a request from the Marine Corps. The Center for Investigative Reporting found that some of the photographs posted on the Facebook group may have been taken consensually, but others may not have been.
No reason now to be "in the Navy"
Good luck with this policy. At best a few sailors or marines will be busted each year for their stupidity, but the vast majority of incidents will never see any enforcement.
I've never been in the armed services but I was under the impression that one of the most important rules for those in authority was do not give orders that one knows will not be followed. Issuing orders that won't be followed helps destroy one's own authority.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
sharing of "intimate images" (defined) that were taken without consent is what is prohibited:
2. Article 1168 of reference (a) is added to read as follows:
a. 1168. Nonconsensual distribution or broadcasting of an image
(1) The wrongful distribution or broadcasting of an intimate image is
prohibited.
(2) The distribution or broadcasting is wrongful if the person making
the distribution or broadcast does so without legal justification or excuse,
knows or reasonably should know that the depicted person did not consent to
the disclosure, and the intimate image is distributed or broadcast:
(a) With the intent to realize personal gain;
(b) With the intent to humiliate, harm, harass, intimidate,
threaten, or coerce the depicted person; or
(c) With reckless disregard as to whether the depicted person
would be humiliated, harmed, intimidated, threatened, or coerced.
50 years ago, all of those photos would have been classified as obscene materials and no one would have voluntarily taken them except between some husbands and wives.
50 years ago is 1967, and I can assure you, there were LOTS of such photos even then. Mostly using Polaroid Instant Film, but some that required developing.
The thing is, now we have a lot more cameras, and no need to even wait for the photo to develop.
The issue also applies to rape as well, outside of clearly forcible rape. Legal fornication acts as static against the signal as far as law enforcement goes. They must now prove purely a state of mind and cannot rely on circumstantial evidence like "normal girls don't ever have one night stands with men they just met."
On the other hand, they also sometimes have interest in actually giving a crap that rapes occurred, in marriage, outside of marriage, and in circumstances they'd just laugh off otherwise.
You may have missed the part where a many of the pictures were taken without the knowledge of the subjects.
50 years ago, all of those photos would have been classified as obscene materials
Horseshit. People have been sharing photos of naked people since the camera was invented. There's nothing at all new here. 50 years ago you could have gotten in deep shit for sharing photos of naked people without their consent. Today you can get in deep shit for sharing photos of naked people without their consent. Heck 65 years ago men were staring at nude images of Marilyn Monroe purchasable from a News outlet. The concept of consent and model releases predate Playboy too.
The only thing that has changed is that women stopped just lying and taking it when a superior male told them what to do. Incidentally the majority of this changed 50 years ago as well.
If you only just discovered the brave new world, you must have been in a long coma.
Drunken sex is not necessarily rape. Drunk people are accountable for their decision to drive a motor vehicle and are frequently accountable for their choice whether to have sex.
Personally I prefer to avoid drunk women. They're just not attractive - unless I'm very drunk myself, in which case they're legally obliged not to rape me.
Separate but pretty intertwined. Marines hold some of the same shipboard positions as sailors, and the USMC has no medical corps -- it goes into action with Navy corpsmen.