**Telcontar **you can’t just tease us withe the site name and not even say it. SOME of us happen to like posting adventurous pics. I know there’s some of me floating around out there, like I care. Even if I ran for office, it’s not like I could do anything about them now.
I think if she’s aware people she didn’t intend to show the pictures to can find them, and she doesn’t care, why would you? It reminds me of when I first met my SO (we met online) and I sent him links to pictures of me. They were all stored on an online storage site I was paying for. He was curious and poked around until he found the rest of my pictures. He let me know, just in case I didn’t realize people could find them, but I figured as much and frankly I didn’t care. If I were worried about it I wouldn’t have put them on the internet. As it is, they were online for the sole purpose of sharing nude pictures with other people.
Anything I put on the internet is here with the assumption that anyone can find it if they really want to. If my nudies resurface later and some shmoe wants to try to use them against me, that probably says more about their character than my own.
Mostly i wanted to keep this as vague as possible. Also a bit because I disapprove of the site; I think people should enjoy their fetishes rather than define themselves by them. Still, to each their own. I’ll send a PM.
Well, care isn’t exactly the right word for my attitude here. It’s more morbid curiosity. This friend and I are no longer close precisely because we have massive values differences. The list of things she does that I consider terrible ideas is rather lengthy, so I’m not going to get too upset by one more. I think this is risky given the number of people who know her in RL and on the website; it means that any of dozens of people could expose her. And, while exposing her vindictively would be a morally wrong act and reflect terribly on the person who did it, that wouldn’t make it any less damaging. If her father saw her profile I think the man might actually die.
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That sucks. And not just because I want to teach. I mean, I understand that public figures are held to higher standards (and I’ve had to deal with that even more so in Japan), but seriously? She wasn’t puking or asleep on a street. Maybe she looked super drunk? The principle makes sense to a certain extent, but it’s a frightening sign of our hand-wringing prudish culture that shit like that can be the end of a career.
And the article said she was working at a high school, doing teacher training, but that she was denied a degree by her university? I can see a case for the high school itself not to hire her, as the reputation might not be good for their school. But how in holy hell does a university deny a student an earned and paid for degree? And then have it upheld by a court? Fuck that noise, I’d be taking that shit as far up the chain as I could go.
I don’t know. On the one hand, everything will resurface. On the other hand, all of the people like me who aren’t used to everything being online will be dead eventually. Kids these days have no expectation that everything won’t be shared online.
So how’s that going to work? You put in a job application, including a photo of your face. And your boss scans in the picture, and tries to google up porn images that match your face? I bet HR will be happy to approve your prospective boss looking at porn all day, and trying to tell if any of the girls in the hardcore scenes look like the cute new receptionist.
Think about how this would actually have to be implemented. You really think random porn-googles will become a standard hiring practice?
Put me in the camp of those who think that, even though the pics are online, and the person can be identified, the poster made a reasonable attempt to remain anonymous and we should respect that.
Similar to if a person belonged to a club where these acts occurred. They used an alias and did not perform the acts in the public square. Certainly anyone could walk through the door of the building and discover the acts and the person, but there is a door.
In my humble opinion, even though the pics are on the web, there is a door one must pass through in order to see them.
I really hope ethical philosophers and courts come up with some guidelines someday on these type of subjects.
This whole “anything you put on the web can be seen by someone someday” should be trumped by “and that doesn’t mean they have the right to screw with you because of it”.