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An Image Site Is Victimizing Countless Women and Little Can Be Done (vice.com)
Allison Tierney, reporting for Vice: An international anonymous photo-sharing site where people post explicit photos without consent is playing host to the victimization of countless women. In the Canadian section of Anon-IB alone, there are currently over a hundred threads -- often organized by region, city, or calling out for nudes of a specific woman to be posted publicly. "Hamilton hoes," "Nanaimo Thread!," and "Markham wins" are some titles of Canadian threads. (Language used on the site equates the word "win" with sexually explicit photos of women.) Many major Canadian cities are represented on the site, and some threads even focus on women from specific schools. While it's a crime to share an "intimate image" of a person without their consent in Canada, sites that host this kind of activity don't necessarily fall under this. "[In terms of organizing content], is it criminal? No. Is it illegal? No," Toronto-based lawyer Jordan Donich, of Donich Law, told VICE. "It's a newer version of an older problem -- sites like these have been around for a long time." Anon-IB is not a new site; its current domain was registered to a "private person" in 2015 and ends in an ".ru." However, the site was initially up several years before 2015, going offline briefly in 2014.
This is an opinion piece, about outrage and victimization. How is this tech?
Why do we have this on slashdot news?
Most people aren't thought about after they're gone. "I wonder where Rob got the plutonium" is better than most get.
Not really... This is just the latest problem. Paparrazi taking photos of celebrities on their private property through a zoom lens has been happening since zoom lenses were invented. It's getting worse with the availability of cheap drones.
We need to decide if we want private spaces and if privacy is to be enforced by high walls and anti-aircraft guns, or some other means.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
The problem is that no matter how good of a defense you have, someone will find a way through it. Eventually satellites will become cheap enough and cameras good enough to capture candid shots from space. High walls and personal anti-aircraft guns already sounds like some kind of crazed libertarian fantasy land, and I can't imagine anti-satellite missiles being added to the mix makes it any more reasonable.
Besides, once the information is out there there's no putting the genie back in the bottle. Even assuming there were, the kind of technology that could theoretically allow you to do just that would give authoritarian governments the kind of control over information that not even Orwell could have imagined. That's far more terrifying then the rest of the world being able to see me naked.
I think it would be far better for humanity to get over their puritanical penchants (which in some cases they're just pretending to have so they can feel morally superior) and accept that people like to fuck. People on nude beaches don't seem to give much care to the other naked people around them, and for what it's worth I think it would do a lot of good for people to see that most people don't look like air-brushed models which has led to a lot of people having issues with body image.
As the other response said - there's a reasonable amount of precaution one should take. A lock on your door is reasonable. More than 2 or 3 is probably starting to fall in the unreasonable category. I would never chastise the victim in any event... in an ideal society, people shouldn't have to lock their doors, there should be the expectation that other human beings could somehow find a way to not violate your rights. We shouldn't need passwords, we shouldn't need antivirus software. Unfortunately, people are a#@holes, so it's expected and reasonable that you lock your door, that you password protect your data.
When people post here that they shouldn't have posed nude to begin with, it's exactly as a precautionary statement - I doubt those women read slashdot. It's something we should heed, tell our kids, spread the word.
Stupid sexy Flanders.