The 1st amendment is getting whittled away, piece by piece
This is how obsessive compulsive personality disorder works. I am sure that some of you players have had a boss, a girlfriend maybe, who takes legitimate moral stands and twists the situation around resulting in oppressive, rule-based worlds.
Take this proposed law. Uploading nude pictures of your ex is inappropriate, but is it criminal? It certainly would bring you potential civil violations, but criminal?
First off, it isn't a huge problem. Leave it Californian politicians to pull stunts like this when the economy is in the tank. Still, what they are doing here is taking what is a legitimate moral/ethical issue and blowing it out of proportion - which is classic OCPD behavior.
Unable to understand the world beyond pure black and whites, they seek to felonize actions that, in reality, shouldn't even be a crime. The reality of social media, cameras on every phone and all that is people will film and takes pictures of you and post it around the web without your consent or take consensual photos and use it against you if you piss them off. Criminal laws will do little to stem this, unless, of course, the punishments are so dis-proportionally severe it makes it completely crazy to engage in the behavior criminalized.
What society should do - and won't - is stop being so damn judgmental. So some random man or woman films sex with their partner and it leaks onto the web - so what? We all fuck (besides IRT), so what really is the scandal? The fact you can see it? Sure, but you know damn well if people are dating or whatever they are going to be fucking this day and age.
This is how obsessive compulsive personality disorder works. I am sure that some of you players have had a boss, a girlfriend maybe, who takes legitimate moral stands and twists the situation around resulting in oppressive, rule-based worlds.
Take this proposed law. Uploading nude pictures of your ex is inappropriate, but is it criminal? It certainly would bring you potential civil violations, but criminal?
First off, it isn't a huge problem. Leave it Californian politicians to pull stunts like this when the economy is in the tank. Still, what they are doing here is taking what is a legitimate moral/ethical issue and blowing it out of proportion - which is classic OCPD behavior.
Unable to understand the world beyond pure black and whites, they seek to felonize actions that, in reality, shouldn't even be a crime. The reality of social media, cameras on every phone and all that is people will film and takes pictures of you and post it around the web without your consent or take consensual photos and use it against you if you piss them off. Criminal laws will do little to stem this, unless, of course, the punishments are so dis-proportionally severe it makes it completely crazy to engage in the behavior criminalized.
What society should do - and won't - is stop being so damn judgmental. So some random man or woman films sex with their partner and it leaks onto the web - so what? We all fuck (besides IRT), so what really is the scandal? The fact you can see it? Sure, but you know damn well if people are dating or whatever they are going to be fucking this day and age.