Thousands of women unknowingly have intrusive photos shared on Twitter

[Faerillis]

That's a really scumbag thing to do. Twitter needs to crack down on this.

And how do you intend they do this, with it being an issue for which the effected are unaware and unable to report, oh New-Left GennGreymane?

[Akqwas]

I remember watching a youtube series a long time ago called "the security cam guy" or something along the lines of that.
His joke was he just walked up to people and recorded them, most of the reactions were usually boring, but a lot of them ended up being funny/ridiculous. People were questioning the legality of it all. I ended up doing some research on it and it turns out, recording someone in a public place is completely legal because there's no implication of privacy. I don't even think you could tell someone to stop as long as you were in a public place. But I'm sure this falls into this category.

And as far as the pedophile claim goes, some people may use the underage people to "get off" but the site doesn't base it's content off of sexually explicit content.
There's actually sites that sell DVD's of photographs and videos of nudist colonies,and a lot include children , but because they claim that the material is not made for porn it ends up being legal.

As far as using sex appeal, I don't imagine that would hold any grounds legally, because a lot of companies use sex appeal to sell products. And if these guy were to be punished on those grounds that means that Victora's Secret ads would also be considered pornographic materials.

From what I understand they are standing right on the edge of legal and illegal. Although morally it's a pretty shady thing to do I'm my opinion, legally there's no law that's being infringed upon currently.

[Serpha]

You act like most men aren't perverts

If "most men" are perverts than it's a norm, is it's a norm than there is nothing perverted about it.

[Deleted]

I don't have a problem with that. If you are on a beach wearing a bikini for example, people can see you, if you want that or not because the beach is a public area. If someone takes a picture of you and puts it online, then more people can see you but it is still the same thing.

[Seranthor]

Yo I'm real happy for you and I'ma let you finish but what does this have to do with illegal photos being circulated on twitter?

Who decided that any of the photos were 'illegal'? I haven't seen that finding by a court anywhere, can you provide this?
If you are concerned about what people are being photographed wearing perhaps you should seek those people out and complain to them.
I am curious, is it now a crime to take pictures in public of other people? If so, please provide the case law for this.

[Deleted]

That is not even funny. it is not remotely the same. People NEEDS to stop saying if you do X is the same as rape. or if men do Y it is the same as rape. STOP jokeing with the seriouss terrible thing that is rape. The more bad comparisons makes "X is Rape, or Y needs to be charged with it" makes it more and more "okay" to make jokes about it.

No, a man should not be charged for rape for doing that.

There's nothing wrong with making jokes about rape. You can make jokes about anything in life. In fact, there tends to be more jokes about the more terrible things in life.

As for this though as others have mentioned, in a public place you can't really expect to be assured privacy. Some people may well be targeting individuals specifically for a picture of a certain nature. Can you imagine families having to ask the perhaps hundreds or thousands of people on a beach if they're allowed to take their picture as they want to remember their kids playing on the beach. So asking for permission will never be a thing required for taking pictures.

If people objected to it so much they should be challenging lawmakers on this rather than Twitter, what happens on Twitter is going to be mild compared to other environments where worse will happen. Getting mad about pictures on twitter is like getting mad at playboy for the kind of porn they used to do, it gets a lot more fucked up on the internet once you push just a little further in.

Trying to protect those actually being abused and suffering as a result would be far more noble. It's surprising how little feminists actually do trying to fight the stuff that is really messed up, the child porn, and then again things like the peadophile rings we've had exposed here in the UK in towns like Rotherham.

[Super Kami Dende]

Surprising to be honest.

I mean Twitter is fine with ISIS accounts and such, but tend to be pretty strongarmed when it comes to feminist outrage.

Surprising indeed.

[Eazy]

Anyone know what the hashtags are, for research purposes?

I want to know too.

Probably #Tennisace or something, but I'm not sure.

[IKT]

"It's impossible to be sexist against males"

"it's impossible for black people to be racists"

"You cannot be sexist towards men because sexism is related to institutional power and only men have institutional power"

"You can't commit hate crimes against men."

"Obviously the answer would be to charge any male who takes a picture of a female for rape."

"In fact ban everything apart from Canadians and Muslims."

"What if we cut to the chase and ban eyes?"

"Why not round up all males and throw them all in prison as potential rapists?"

mmo-champion playing the victim again and going off on a giant tangent. I wonder if every post in this thread is from an insecure white pre-teen male

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Don't post spam

[Super Friendly Kitty Cat]

Surprising to be honest.

I mean Twitter is fine with ISIS accounts and such, but tend to be pretty strongarmed when it comes to feminist outrage.

Surprising indeed.

Twitter is garbage.

It's ran by Feminist Frequency now; bloated, purple haired, hairy women wearing bizarre looking glasses who haven't gotten laid in 10 years.

[breadisfunny]

That's a really scumbag thing to do. Twitter needs to crack down on this.

yes tennisace they really need to dig deeper on the matter.

[Deleted]

i remember before seeing a website(?) think it was a whole website dedicated to it, or part of one, of hot guys people have spotted on the london underground and sharing them alone, i thought that was kind of creepy,

Usually pictures of their bulge

[jimboa24]

Wait, how do we even know this supposed website/hashtag even exists? No one has posted either one, so for all we know, we've been discussing something a bored guardian journalist made up out of boredom.

[Yarathir]

That's a really scumbag thing to do. Twitter needs to crack down on this.

Yes, it's high time all of these pictures of unknowing victims get removed, like the pictures that are made of an unknowing person and then thrown on Twitter on Tumblr to shame men for "manspreading" on the bus.